"Come on Fubuki! We're going to get breakfast at Mamiya's and if you sleep in any longer we'll leave you behind" complained Mutsuki while prodding Fubuki's face, "give her a break Mutsuki, destroyers may be the fastest ships in the fleet, but you can't expect them to be the fastest out of bed in the morning poi" said a hungry Yuudachi from across the room "especially after what she's been through, operation MI was very draining on all of us, especially her." As the girls left the room, they started discussing whether to invite Akagi for breakfast, that sure got Fubukis attention as she leapt out of bed and chased down the two girls.
As the girls made their way to the café, they walked past Akagi and her sister Kaga, who were coming back from training. "E-Excuse me, Akagi, if you're not busy, we were wondering if you would like to come and have breakfast with us at Mamiya's café, if it's not any trouble" stammered Fubuki, even though Fubuki and Akagi had a close relationship since operation MI, Fubuki still found it hard to speak with her occasionally. As it turned out, Akagi was quite hungry after training and accepted Fubuki's offer, more surprisingly, Kaga requested that she join them. The five girls made their way to the café and ordered breakfast.
After they finished, Fubuki and her friends said goodbye to the two carriers and began making to the training course when suddenly the base alert went off and they heard secretary ship Nagato's voice come over the loudspeaker. "This is secretary Nagato, I require the following ships for an urgent mission, Shimakaze, Kongō, Hiei, Kirishima, Haruna and Fubuki, please report to the admiral's office, that is all."
Fubuki apologised to her friends for not being able to train with them and rushes to the mission briefing. When Fubuki reached the office, she knocked politely, with Mutsu calling her in, inside was Nagato and her sister ship Mutsu, as well as Shimakaze, who was bouncing around like an adrenaline fuelled bouncy ball, "I'm not surprised that she's the first one here, being the fastest destroyer ever built. Nagato sighed, "now we wait for the Kongōu sisters… aga-" a loud thumping sound fills the hallway outside, cutting off Nagato mid sentence, Fubuki turned to see Mutsu banging her head against the wall when suddenly the door bursts open with Kongou shouting "WE'RE HEEEERE" before launching herself into the room like a meteor and crashing into command cruiser Ooyodo who was sitting at a radio station, knocking them both to the ground. Fubuki noticed that Kongou's sisters were peering into the room and laughing intensely, "Now that we're all here, can we get to the briefing please!" Said Nagato in her annoyed voice, as soon as she said this, the six ships stood to attention and Ooyodo began handing Nagato intel.
Nagato began the briefing, "Right, this will be a simple scouting mission, about an hour ago, one of our reconnaissance planes was returning to base when it snapped this image on the other side of the island" she then proceeded to show the group a black and white photo of the western part of the island and it showed some kind of freaky storm cloud, "the pilot reported that the cloud came out of nowhere and disappeared just as quickly. At that same time our early warning radar system picked up three objects at an altitude of about 1000 meters, they disappeared before we could get another radar sweep. These are your missions, Shimakaze, Hiei and Haruna are to deploy and perform a perimeter check, make sure there aren't any Abyssals in the area, once you are done, await further orders. Fubuki, Kongou and Kirishima, you are to travel to the last point of contact and find out what that contact was, are we clear?" The 6 ships saluted and headed to the launch platform.
"Reconnaissance squadron, ready to launch" announced Fubuki as the girls readied themselves for departure, they donned their rigging and sailed out of the harbour.
"What do you think it is Bucky?" Queried Kongou as their fleet split up, "I don't know Kongou, I'm expecting the worst and hoping for nothing" replied Fubuki calmly. As they neared their destination, Fubuki suggested that they land close by and walk the rest of the way and the battleships agreed. Once they landed, Fubuki and Kongou dematerialised their gear while Kirishima elected to keep her guns at the ready, just in case, and they started heading across the beach. The trio had been walking for about 5 minutes and Fubuki's mind had just started to wander when Kongou abruptly began tapping her on the shoulder, "Blimey Bucky, what is that!?" Fubuki looked up to see a large mound of sand and the trio unanimously sprinted forward. When they reached the hill, Fubuki realised that it wasn't a hill at all, but an impact crater, and in the centre, was 3 unconscious girls.
Kongou radioed Nagato. "Uhh hey secretary, I don't think we're in any danger, cause they ain't Abyssals that's for sure, in fact, on the contrary, I think they might be Kanmusu!" Then Kirishima added "I've been considering the variables and I have a theory; I think that the mysterious cloud the recon plane saw somehow dropped these three here." Just then, Shimakaze appeared behind them followed by Hiei and Haruna. Fubuki radioed the base and informed them that they were going to bring the strangers in.
The girls paired up with Fubuki and Shimakaze dragging the smaller green one out of the crater, Haruna and Kirishima then pulled the larger blue one out as well and Kongou and Hiei picked up the black one, what intrigued Fubuki was that Kongou and Hiei appeared to struggle to carry this one, which meant that they were definitely fleet girls and that the one in black is a powerful ship, and so the girls then hit the waves and dragged the mysterious arrivals back to the naval district.
As the fleet returned to the harbour, they were met with the gazes of several destroyers and cruisers, as well as Nagato and Mutsu, they were all waiting for their return. Fubuki and Shimakaze were the first to make landfall, and with their rigging fading away, they trudged up the beach towards the crowd that had assembled before them.
As they neared the crowd, the repair cruiser Akashi and another cruiser came forward, "we'll help Shimakaze with this one, the secretary wants to hear your report" spoke Akashi softly while taking the load off Fubuki.
Fubuki nodded and headed over to where Nagato was waiting while the three strangers were taken to the docks. As the destroyer approached Nagato, she asked for the mission report, and Fubuki started going over what she experienced in great detail. "So, you believe that they are fleet girls?" Asked Nagato, puzzled. "Yes, all of the evidence presented so far points to them being kanmusu, as well as that." She directed the attention of Nagato and Mutsu over towards the docks were, even with the help of Tenyruu and Akashi, Kongou and Hiei were visibly struggling to carry the weight of the ship girl as they finally made it to the docks.
"I-If it's no issue, I would like to stay with our guests until they wake up?" The destroyer piped up, Nagato nodded and headed back to her office.
It had been three and a half hours since they had returned with the mysterious kanmusu, Fubuki, Mutsuki and Yuudachi were sitting in the emergency room and were deep in discussion about how they could use their torpedos more effectively against the Abyssals, it was at this point that they realised that one of the girls was sitting up and staring at them with the most confused look on her face. The destroyers literally jumped when Yuudachi pointed it out, "Mutsuki, go find Akashi and Nagato, quickly!" And the small girl bolted out of the room.