Yo everyone I'm back for Chapter 2. So I hope you enjoy it. :)
To answer of few of your questions. This story romance will only have Kurt (OC) paired with Kaga. Other characters will have relationship's, as well. So there will not be a harem. I'm terribly sorry, I just can't write good harem.
Also Kurt as a character has an incredible amount of back story to him. So there's a reason he acts like the way he does. Please bear with me, if he doesn't act like how you expect him to react in the situation he's in, his back story will be explained further down the line. So you should be able to understand then.
Now then without further ado on with the story!
Disclaimer: I do not own Kantai Collection in anyway shape or form. I also do not own any of the Military equipment, or experimental technology that has already been created. I do own any original idea's, and technology that I create.
Angel's Of Our Future Chapter Two: Aftermath
Okinawa, Japan
August 18, 2024
United States Special Force's, Lieutenant Kurt Housley
"W-Where am I?" Kurt asked as he suddenly awoke. He opened his eyes, but he was met by blinding whiteness. He tried to look around, attempting to get get his barrings. He thought he might've gone blind but thank god a couple seconds later his vision came back to him.
The soldier quickly realized that he was laying in a hospital bed, which could only me he was now in a medbay, or hospital of some sort.
"Admiral he's awake!" A voice suddenly shouted out to his left, the man jerked his head, but was quickly med by a small jolt of pain. "Ow." He said in response, clutching the side of his head. He looked down at him self, and realized that he was no longer wearing his Exo or any armor. Instead he now wore his Multicam Assault Shirt, with his combat pants. He looked over to his side to see a small table with his pistol laying in it's holster. He breathed in for a moment before beginning to get up, but was met my a small hand grabbing his arm. "You must not get up." The voice called out. Kurt directly his attention to the voice only to see Inazuma standing beside him "Inazuma?" Kurt called out, with surprise. He certainly never expected to see her again.
"Y-Yes. You were injured in combat. You must stay in the bed." She said, trying to force the man back into the bed. Instead Kurt sat on side with a panicked expression. "The attack! What happened?!" He shouted out, the man desperately needed to know. Inazuma didn't know what to do. "Uhhhhh." She began, but then it turned into unintelligent stuttering.
"Get back in your bed American." A voice said, from the corner of the room. Kurt looked over to see the Girl he helped before, leaning against the wall in the corner. She still had her previous clothes on, but did not have her weapons, or equipment.
"You're the Girl from before." Kurt said, pointing to her. Inazuma turned to the Girl with a pleasant smile. "Oh hello Kaga-sama." The Girl known now as Kaga gave a polite nod back.
"So Kaga's your name. You must be one of those famous Japanese carrier's." Kurt said, trying to remember his history. If he recalled correctly Kaga was a Japanese carrier that saw a large amount of action during World War II.
"That's right American, and you better remember it." She said with a confident smirk.
Kurt's face filled with annoyance. He knew this Ship Girl would be trouble. "First off I'm not just American. I have a name. It's Kurt, and I'd love it if you would use it, princess." He said with a mischievous smirk.
A small blush appeared across Kaga's face, as well as a large amount of Shock. "Princess!" She shouted out, with anger. She quickly rushed towards Kurt, and stood looking down at him. She was trying to intimidate him, but Kurt wasn't having any of that, so he stood his ground. An awkward expression appeared across Inazuma's face. She didn't know what to do.
"Now, now Kaga. Let's not be rude to our guest." A voice said from behind her. Everyone turned to see Admiral Shigeko Tansho, standing in the doorway to the room.
"Admiral Tansho if I'm correct." Kurt said, as the Admiral began to walk over to him.
"Yes, I'm glad you remembered. Now let's get you up to speed." He said pulling up a chair, and sitting down next to him.
"Speed?" Kurt asked confusingly.
"That's correct. You've been out for two weeks." Tansho said, pulling out some papers, and other materials.
Kurt's face filled with shock. 'Two weeks?' He asked himself, he couldn't have been out for that long. Was his team ok? Did they win? Did we secure our Alliance with Japan?
"What exactly happened to me?" He asked trying, to calm his mind down. Tansho took a deep breath, and began to explain. "An Abyssal Destroyer nearly made a meal out of you, and Kaga here. But with your quick thinking, it didn't end like that. You suffered multiple broken ribs, and a punctured right lung, as well a severe concussion." Tansho said handing Kurt a paper, listing all his injuries. He read it over. "Damnnnnn." He said, letting out a whistle. But he knew, he'd been through a lot worse.
"It could've been more problematic. But I must say your body heals remarkable fast." Tansho said, as he recalled how fast Kurt's body reacted to treatment. His lung was healed in a weak, ribs two days after, and his concussion was now just a minor headache.
"I've always been like that, don't know how, and every doctor I see doesn't know why." Kurt said, shrugging. He never cared to question it, all he knew is that it helped him in combat.
"I see." Tansho said, leaning back in the chair. Kaga, and Inazuma stood to each side of him waiting patiently. You could tell the man was a Fleet Girl Admiral just by looking at him. Kurt had met the American Ship Girl Admiral, as well as the British, and German one's before too. They all always had the same look in their eyes. They knew that their Girl's were the last hope for Humanity. The pressure on them was to immense for just one person to carry, but still they all did it without question.
"But what happened? Did we push the Abyssal's back?" Kurt asked, once he got out of thought.
"Yes, with the help of your Naval Force's, we successfully pushed them back out into the deep Pacific." Tansho said with a smile.
"That's good. So where's my team?" He asked. Wondering where they could be. Usually Missouri would be right by his side by now.
"That's were things get interesting." Tansho said, with an awkward smile. Kurt perked up at this. What had happened while he was out? "Your team, and Navy have already left. They've returned to America." Tansho simply stated.
"What?" Kurt asked, with concern. Why did they leave him here?
"While you were out Japan formed an alliance, with America, and opened up trade again. Your country will now aid's us. Vice versa." Tansho explained.
"So why am I still here?" He asked, confusingly.
"Your Ambassador insisted that you remain here at our base. I'm sure it's to watch over us, and get Intel on our Girl's." Tansho said, looking over to Inazuma, and then to Kaga. Both had concerned expression, while they stared at Kurt.
'Oh hell no.' The Seal thought to himself, there was no way in hell that he'd be a spy. He was a soldier not one of those CIA spooks. Plus these were Ship Girl's. There's no need for it, they were all fighting the same enemy. 'Why's the Ambassador such an ass?' He asked himself.
"Christ. I can assure you that my intentions are not to spy on your Girl's." Kurt said, rubbing the back of his head. Inazuma let out a sigh of relief, while Kaga contained to stare at Kurt.
"Don't worry, I believe you Lieutenant." Tansho said, seeing his two Girl's reaction's.
"So what now?" Kurt asked, looking at him with confusion. Was he suppose to take orders from this man now?
"As of right now I can't give you orders. But your Ambassador did leave this for you." Tansho said getting up, and handing Kurt a sealed envelope.
"Thank you." He said, with a smile.
"Also your men left you your equipment, and personal belongings. They're in a create in the your room. Don't worry it's sealed by fingerprint, so no one messed with it. I'll have one of my Girl's show you the way." Tansho said getting up, from the chair, and walking to the door. Kaga, and Inazuma were close behind him.
"Alright thank you again." Kurt said with a wave.
"Don't mention it. Rest up, and come talk with me, when you know what you're going to do." The Admiral said with a smile, as he walked out of the room with the two Girl's.
When Tansho left Kurt, stared down at the closed envelope with concern. "Jesus what did that crazy Ambassador do this time?" He asked himself, as he cut open the envelope, and began to read it.
To: Lieutenant Kurt Housley
I'm going to make this brief, so you'll understand it easier. We want you to watch over this base, as long as you can. Not to gather information, but to watch over it. If you would like, you can help the Admiral in anyway possible. Tensions are still high with Japan, they still haven't revealed the reason they closed themselves off. I'm having our spooks work on finding out. Gain their trust, by the time we return.
A portion of the 7th fleet will arrive in another 5 weeks to your location, to begin reestablishing our presence on Okinawa. I'll contact you in the coming weeks about other matters, regarding your duty's.
From: Ambassador Ross Free
P.S. Recover soon, we'll need the son of the Great Vice Admiral Housley back in the fight, as soon as possible.
"Damn. This is all too confusing, I'm a soldier not some sorta political link." He said, as he put the letter back inside the envelope. Why did it have to be him. He literally had to be the worst person to do the job. And to top it all off he hated all the political bullshit. Why couldn't everyone just help each other out, against the Abyssal threat?
He huffed out one more time, before he looked around the room. "No use staying in bed I guess." He said outloud, getting out of bed. He grabbed his holster for his fire arm, strapped it to his side, and walked out of the hospital room.
He moved through the empty corridors with ease. There was a small pain in his side, and the remnants of a headache, but both were quickly fading, as he moved through the building.
"I don't think you should be out of bed." A voice said behind him, as moved past an open doorway that led outside. Kurt spun around to see Kaga staring directly behind him. She had both of her arms crossed, and a disapproving expression.
"I thought you went with your Admiral?" Kurt asked, hands in his pocket. Kaga reluctantly looked away, before beginning to speak. "The Admiral told me to show you the way to where you'll be staying."
"Alright then, lead the way Princess." Kurt said with a smirk. He may be Special Force's, but he wasn't going to let someone walk all over him like that.
Kaga just looked at him, with an irritated expression."…Follow me American." She said walking past him. Kurt just raised his eyebrow, before following.
The two quickly moved around the base, towards the area where all the personnel stayed. Kurt looked around, and realized this place showed now damage at all from the previous attacks. He had to admit they worked fast. As they continued to walk Kurt saw different Ship Girl's gasping, and pointing at the sight of him. 'Have some of them never seen anyone besides their Admiral before?' he asked himself. These Girl's acted like Kurt was some new, and interesting thing. He looked around at the buildings, trying to avoid all the stares. None of them looked military at all, in fact they reminded him of a school. "You know this place kinda reminds me of an academy."
"Well there are only Ship Girl's here. So it's not going to be one of your typical bases." Kaga said, without looking back. Kurt just sighed, as they approached a building, that resembled a dorm, or even apartments. But then a second later Kurt realized what Kaga had just said. 'Only Ship Girl's!' He thought to himself. This wasn't going to be good. "So wait. The Admiral, and I are the only men here?" He asked. But as soon as the words echo out of Kurt's mouth, Kaga turned around with Disgust. "Don't get any filthy ideas. You American. I'll blow you away in a second."
"What? No! I wasn't thinking like that!" Kurt shouted back in response. He was not thinking of anything like that at all. Kaga stared blankly at him for a second. "For a soldier you sure act differently." She said while beginning to walk up to the building.
"What's your definition, on who Soldiers are suppose to act then?" Kurt asked, he seriously hated it, when they assumed all Soldiers are the same. Our world's been engulfed by war for too long. People have stopped seeing Soldiers, as normal humans. Lately everyone's seen them, as just tools, and a defense. Kurt hated it so much. But he stood patiently, waiting for the carrier to respond, but she didn't respond. She froze in place, as she stared up at the building. "Hello? Kaga?" Kurt asked, with both of his hands behind his head. "This can't be right." She said looking up in horror.
"What's wrong?" Kurt finally asked, shaking her out of her trance. "This is the Aircraft carriers dorm." She said slowly. This man would be staying in the same building as her!
Kurt didn't really care, that he would be staying in the same building as her. He wasn't going to complain, it looked like a nice place to sleep. Much better then any place he's slept, when he was deployed. "I need to go speak with the Admiral immediately." She said with a frustrated look, as she turned around, and bumped into a smaller Girl. This smaller girl had dark brown hair, with two long bangs going down each side. On the back of her head, towards the bottom she had a small ponytail. She had brown eyes, and a Serafuku with a white and dark blue color scheme. Kaga looked down at the Girl, and quickly apologized.
"Oh Lieutenant up, and about I see." A voice said to Kaga's right. She looked over to see Tansho. Kurt watched as her expression changed from calm, and collective to panic. He wonder what was going through her head.
Tansho cleared his throat, which brought back Kurt's attention. "This is Fubuki, and she'll…" He stopped when he saw Kaga next to Fubuki with a nervous expression. "Kaga?" The Admiral asked staring at her with concern. 'What was she doing here?' He thought to himself.
"Hello Admiral." She said, trying to calm herself down.
"I thought you were going to the range?" Tansho asked with a questioned look.
"Errr yes I was, but I ran into the American here, and…." She stopped when Kurt suddenly moved forward. "Can you stop calling me American?" He asked. Kaga stared at him for a moment, before turning to Tansho. "Admiral." She said while walking away. The Admiral just gave her a questioned, and looked back to Kurt. "Kurt I wish I could stay, and show you around, but I'm needed elsewhere. So Fubuki here will be." He said, patting the Girl's head.
"Perfectly fine Admiral." Kurt said with a smile.
"Then I'll speak with you soon." Tansho said, walking back to his office. After the Admiral moved out of sight, Kurt let out a sigh of relief.
His mind began to drift back to Kaga. Why did she act like that towards him, and why was she leading him around if Fubuki was suppose too. "Damn." Kurt began talking to himself. 'I wonder why she hate's me so much?" He asked outloud, not really expecting an answer.
"Kaga-sama recently lost her sister in a firefight, and she still holds a grudge towards America. For the war." The Ship Girl known as Fubuki suddenly said. Kurt looked down at her, and she quickly covered her mouth. She must've thought she had spoke out of term. She quickly began to start apologizing, but was stopped when Kurt put his hand up. "It's quite alright Fubuki." The Ship Girl let out a sigh of relief. "Sorry again." She said, bowing. Kurt awkwardly smiled at her, while she did it, until her previous statement came back to him.
"You mean World War II?" He asked.
"Oh yes. Midway to be exact." She confirmed. Kurt quickly began to try, and remember the battle of Midway. If his history was correct, Kaga was sunk along side other Japanese carrier's during this battle by US forces. It was a crippling blow to the Japanese, as it halted Japanese expansion, and ultimately led to their downfall. No wonder she had a grudge against him. "Damn I didn't know. Now I feel like a jerk." He said. Knowing that he's been teasing her the entire time. But out of every Ship Girl's he's every met, none of them have ever had a negative opinion, about any country. Even the German one's didn't hold a grudge. Why was Kaga so different then?
"Don't worry Kaga's like that to everyone. Just give her sometime." Fubuki said with a smile.
Kurt let out a sigh. "Alright then." He said, he would rather try to make amends with her right now, but he understood what Fubuki meant.
"Ready to take the grand tour?" She asked. The Seal nodded his head, and Fubuki smiled. "Great please follow me." She said with a smile. The two began to walk in the opposite direction of the dorm. Little did both of them know, that a certain carrier was watching them.
-Time Skip - 30 minutes later-
Fubuki had took the time to show Kurt around the Naval base. She showed him the repair bay, which is where he layed unconscious for the past 2 weeks.
Kurt still couldn't believe he was out for that long. The two continued to walk, as Fubuki pointed out various buildings. Kurt had to admit, this was better then getting shot at. But he'd still rather be with his squad then here. He decided just to deal with it for the time being.
"So Fubuki?" He asked breaking the silence.
"Uh-huh?" The Destroyer asked, as they walked to their next destination. Which Fubuki told him would be the mess hall.
"Do you ever get deployed?" Kurt asked, with curiosity. He had wondered this for sometime since Japan closed themselves off.
"You mean sorties?" Fubuki asked in reply. Kurt looked puzzled for a moment, but then remembered that Ship Girl's often called their missions sorties. "Yeah." He confirmed.
"Um. I particularly don't get deployed to much, most of the time the more experienced girls do. Although one day I hope to be a flagship." She said looking up to the sky, recalling all the time's she'd watch all the others girls return from their sorties. Fubuki couldn't wait to prove herself out their to be a flagship.
"Don't worry Fubuki I'm sure you'll get there." Kurt said with a smile, as he patted her on the head. He felt some comfortable around this place now that he thought about it more. It was a far different feeling then being in a U.S. base or on a ship.
"Fubuki!" A voice suddenly shouted out from behind them. Kurt turn around to see another girl running towards them. She had a bright smile, with her hand raised high, as she waved it. As she approached Kurt got a better looked at her. She looked almost identical to Fubuki, even down to the same outfit. The only thing that was different was her hair instead of Fubuki's semi long hair, this Girl's only went down to her chin. Kurt suspected that these two must be ship sisters.
"Oh hello Miyuki." Fubuki said with a pleasant smile, as the Girl ran up to them. She took a moment to catch her breath, then without even acknowledge Fubuki she immediately began to stare at Kurt. The Seal looked down at her with a raised eyebrow; before Kurt knew it, she was circling him.
"Is this the man, all of our sisters have been talking about?" She asked, as she inspected his uniform.
"So this is one of your sisters Fubuki." Kurt said, as he stood still, as the Ship Girl continued to inspect. Kurt wondered how much longer this would go on. Luckily for him the Girl stopped after Fubuki began to protest.
"I'm terribly sorry Kurt. This is my Ship sister. Miyuki." Fubuki said presenting the Girl. Miyuki gave him a wide smile.
"I'm Lieutenant Kurt Housley. Please to meet you." He said with a soft smile. Miyuki was taken back for a moment. She didn't expect him to greet her back with a smile. Most of the time, any officer she met almost always had a Stoic like expression. Realizing she was spacing out, Miyuki came back to reality. "You sure are different then any other officers I've met." She said with a grin. Kurt didn't know if she complimented him, or just insulated him. He was about to ask, but the sound of Fubuki's stomach, made him stop. Miyuki looked in the the distance towards a clocktower. When she read what the clock said she immediately turned back to them. "Hey it's almost lunchtime. Would you like to eat with us?" She asked, staring up at Kurt.
"Sure." The Seal said with a shrug. He was getting quite hungry. Miyuki smiled at this, and reached for her sister. "Come on Fubuki!" She exclaimed, grabbing her by the collar of her shirt. "Wahhhhh!" Fubuki shouted out, as she was dragged away by Miyuki. Kurt just stood there with an awkward smile, before he began to follow. Again the lone figure in the distance began to follow them to the mess hall.
The three quickly made it to the mess hall, where a large number of Ship Girl's ate. The moment Kurt entered the building everyone went quite, as they stared at him. 'It's like being the new kid in school all over again. 'He thought nervously to himself. He stared around awkwardly, as all the eyes glued on him. A couple seconds later the girls went back to all of their previous conversations.
After the awkward moment Kurt, Miyuki, and Fubuki all grabbed their meals from the line. Kurt grabbed surprisingly his favorite dish, and the only Japanese dish he knew. Miso ramen. Miyuki grabbed a large plate of egg rice, with fried shrimps. Lastly Fubuki grabbed a small bowl of Miso soup. Kurt, and Miyuki watched as she almost ended up spilling it all over herself, but she barely managed to save herself. Once Fubuki met up with two, Kurt asked. "Are you ok?" Seeing that the Destroyer almost burned herself. Miyuki was seen laughing behind him.
"Yeah I'm fine. Thank you." She said with a smile, then giving Miyuki the stink eye.
"Yosh! Now where should we sit?" Miyuki asked, ignoring her sister, as they walked into the seating area.
"Kurt!" A voice shouted out in the sea of Girls. Kurt focused in on the direction of the voice, and found Inazuma sitting down at a table near the corner of the large room. She sat down next to 3 other Girls, who all wore the same outfit. From what Kurt could see they were all eating Curry.
Kurt quickly moved over to them, followed by Miyuki, and Fubuki.
"Inazuma how are you doing?" He asked, standing over her.
"I'm doing just fine. I'd like you to meet my sisters. Hibiki, Akatsuki, and of course you already know Ikazuchi."She said, pointing to each one respectively.
"Pleasure." The one known as Akatsuki raised her hand with a smile. Kurt firmly shook it, which seemed to satisfy her.
"Hello." Hibiki simply stated, with a emotionless tone, and expression.
Ikazuchi gave Kurt a sheepish grin, as she saluted to him. The Seal smiled, and saluted back. "It's very nice to meet all of you."
"Why don't you sit down with us?" Inazuma asked. Kurt looked back at Miyuki, and Fubuki for confirmation. He didn't know if these two groups didn't like each other. He was greeted with a nod, and smile from the two.
"Oh ok. Sure." Kurt said turning back to her. They all sat down, and began to eat their lunches.
"So what's it like in America?" Ikazuchi suddenly blurted out.
"We've never been outside of the Naval base." Hibiki added.
"Well it's pretty decent. We do our best to keep the Abyssal's at bay, and to help the other countries with the problem." Kurt explained to them, remembering the situation North America was in. They were one of the only continents to not have been assaulted by an Abyssal land invasion. Beside for the taking of Hawaii, they haven't really tried to push any farther in. Sure America, along with Canadian forces had a strong Naval presence in the Pacific, and Atlantic. Not to mention America's Ship Girl's were among some of the strongest, but for some reason it still felt strange to Kurt. As he thought about it more, he hadn't realize that all of the Ship Girl's at the table were now extremely interested in his missions, and deployments. As they all leaned in ready to listen.
"Have you ever been anywhere else?" Akatsuki asked, knowing that one day she will get deployed, and get to see the world. She wanted to find out everything this man knew about it.
"Well let's see. I've been deployed to Germany, China, North Africa, and Central America." Kurt said counting them all on his fingers. All the Girl's looked at him with astonishment.
"Wowwwww you've been deployed to so many places!" Ikazuchi shouted out, startling everyone at the table. Akatsuki quickly shushed her sister. The two then began to argue, and Fubuki was trying to calm them down. Miyuki, and Inazuma were trying to hold off their laugher.
"Were all of these to battle the Abyssal's?" Hibiki asked, while the two were telling back, and fourth. Kurt simply nodded his head, and Hibiki's eyes widened. The members in the JSDF always told her that it was an attack focused on Japan. They lied to them. This angered her greatly.
Kurt noticed Hibiki's suddenly expression changed, and looked at him with a concern expression. "Are you ok?"
"I-I thought they were just a problem here?" She asked, trying to control her anger. That means all of her friends that died during Operation Moesashi. Died for nothing!
Kurt could clearly see the see the discomfort in Hibiki's eyes. "It's a global war." He added, trying to have her understand the full picture.
"Ehhhhhhhhh!" Ikazuchi shouted out coming back into the picture. Akatsuki began to try, and silence her sister again, until the sound of footsteps made all the Akatsuki sisters freeze.
"HEY YOU FOUR!" A voice shouted out from behind everyone.
"Oh no." Akatsuki, Ikazuchi, and Inazuma all said in unison. Everyone turned to see a young women approaching them. She had a very annoyed expression. She had chin length, semi spiky, purple hair. She wore a dark serafuku, with an eye patch over one of her yellow eyes.
"What have told you about being so loud you three?" The women said walking up to the Akatsuki sisters. She had a disapproving expression, as she put her hands on her hips.
"We're sorry Tenryuu-sama" Akatsuki, Ikazuchi, and Inazuma said looking down in shame. Hibiki on the other hand just remained quite, as she ate her Curry.
"It's fine." The women known as Tenryuu said, waving the three off. She then looked over to see Kurt. The man currently had a mouth full of ramen, when he looked up at the Ship Girl. "Who's this?" Tenryuu asked, pointing down to Kurt.
"Oh this is Kurt. He's an American, he'll be staying at the base for the time being." Fubuki said, with a smile. Kurt still had a mouth full of food, so he couldn't respond.
"An American you say?" Tenryuu said, with an evil smirk, as she smashed both of her fists together.
Kurt looked up at her with wide eyes. 'Shit.' He thought to himself. This wasn't good, he didn't want to have to go against a Fleet Girl in combat. He remembered when Patrick, pissed off Missouri, and he ended up getting thrown off the side of the Ship they were stationed on. Kurt did not want to end up like Patrick.
"Hahahaha!" Tenryuu began to laugh out, Kurt stared at her with confusion. "I must say your submariners got some pretty good hits on me during the last war. I remember my crew was so sad from the sight of me sinking, but to tell you the truth it was kinda nice being at the bottom of the ocean for a bit. The fish were a pain in the ass though." She said, patting him on the back. Kurt laughed nervously, as Tenryuu sat down beside him. "So what're you all talking about?" The Light Cruiser asked.
"The Lieutenant here was just telling us about all his deployments." Fubuki said with a smile, gesturing to Kurt.
"He was telling how there were Abyssal's all over the world." Hibiki said.
"What no way!" Tenryuu said with a shocked expression. The Admiral's always told them that, they were the only ones who were in contact with Abyssal forces. She needed to go have a chat with him soon.
"Have any of you ever been out of Japan's waters?" He asked curiously. of cause to him it sounded like hardly any of these Girl's have been outside of the Naval base.
"Nope, we're not aloud too." Miyuki said with a mouthful of rice. Causing it to fly directly into Fubuki's face. Fubuki slowly wiped away the rice, and stared with annoyance at Miyuki. "Sorry." She said with a smile, spitting even more rice in her face.
"Miyuki!" She shouted out, as she reached across the table trying to grab her sister. Everyone began to laugh.
As everyone payed attention to the two sisters. Inazuma pulled on the side Kurt's uniform to try, and get his attention. Kurt looked to her happily.
"To tell you the truth, when I arrived with the Admiral to meet you on the island, it was my first time out of the Naval base." She said nervously.
The Lieutenant was a bit shocked by this. These Girl's were needed to aide, and defend humanity. Why are the Japanese keeping them so secluded.
"How many of you are sent out on missions?" Kurt asked looking around. This caused all the Girl's to stop, and turn to him.
"It's almost always the same Girl's." Tenryuu said, with an annoyed look. She was never picked. It was almost always the Battleships and Aircraft carrier's.
"Why aren't most of you deployed, with your Navy?" He asked. Every other nation deployed them with the Navy, and sometimes the Air Force.
"The Navy doesn't like us." Hibiki said, finishing her Curry.
"What? Why?" He asked, clearly shocked.
"They believe that we're soiling the names of the Ship's." Fubuki revealed to Kurt.
"Which is stupid considering we are the ship's." Tenryuu added, as she leaned back in her chair.
"Still I would expect you to go out more." The Seal said crossing his arms. Stuff, just kept getting weirder, and weirder by the moment.
"Our government values us highly. They don't deploy us, unless they absolutely need too." Inazuma said, remembering all the times she watched the older girls go off on sorties. Sometimes they all didn't come back, remembering what happened to Akagi.
"Jesus." Kurt said with a clearly shocked expression. These Girl's wanted to fight. Why the hell didn't Japan let them?
"How does your government do it?" Akatsuki asked.
"Well usually we have Ship Girl's escorting material, and other important goods to our ports. The vast majority of them our integrated with our Navy. But our heaviest ships are usually patrolling the Pacific, and Atlantic walls." Kurt explained.
"What're those?" Fubuki asked.
"Massive walls built on our shore line's to protect against Abyssal land attack's. They're chalked full of defense's, and such. Not to mention out drone Fleet is always overhead." He explained to the girls. All of them were clearly interested, with the US, and their tech. Someday be would have to tell them about there new Battleship's.
"Damn. It sure sounds like the U.S. have their shit together." She said with a smirk, but then instantly covered her mouth. She wasn't aloud to cuss around the Akatsuki sisters.
"Tenryuu-sama!" Ikazuchi shouted out, with a playful disapproving expression.
"Right. Sorry, sorry." She said, trying to wave them off, and save herself.
"Honestly Tenryuu you're so unladylike." Akatsuki said, waving her finger infront of her.
"Eh? What did you just say!" The Cruiser said, beginning to get annoyed.
"Tenryuu-sama not so loud." Inazuma said, softly. Tenryuu's face was now twitching with annoyance.
Everyone around her began to laugh, as she let her head fall in shame. Once she had finished sulking she popped right back up, and asked Kurt to tell them more stories. So the Seal spent the next half hour telling all the Girl's about life in Seal Team Saber.
Once he was done, all the girls said farewell to him, and Fubuki. The two quickly existed the mess hall. A second later Kaga immediately came around the corner of the building, and grabbed Kurt by his collar.
"Kaga-senpai!" Fubuki shouted out, trying to stop the Carrier.
"Fubuki I need to speak with him. I'll take it from here." She said in the calmest voice possible.
"B-But the Admiral said he was my responsibility." She said holding her ground, she wasn't going to be intimated by her.
Kaga turned back around with a severely pissed. Fubuki was now beginning to get scared. "Go now." She said sternly. The Destroyer was about to say something, but then Kurt began to speak up. "It's fine Fubuki, I'll be alright. I'll just tell the Admiral that Kaga kindly offered to take over." He said with a kind smile, not wanting Fubuki to be hurt, of course he didn't believe she would hurt her.
The Destroyer looked at him for a moment with concern, before reluctantly turning away from them. "What would Akagi-Senpai think?" She said while beginning to walk away. Kaga face instantly changed from being pissed to straight up rage. Kaga was about to turn back to punched Fubuki, but she was already out of range. So she looked at her menacingly.
Once she was out of sight Kaga immediately began to drag Kurt to the Aircraft carrier dorm. Once they arrived Kaga marched in with him in hand. Some of the Girl's in their looked at her questionably, but she ignored them. She walked with Kurt up two flights of stairs, and to her room. She immediately opened the door, and pushed him in. Kurt who had been staying quiet the entire time, decided to break his silence. "Can I help you?"
"What's your game here American?" She asked, closing the door, and walking up to him. She was about the same height as him.
"I don't know what you mean?" Kurt said looking at her with a questioned expression. He had no idea what the Girl meant.
"You know damn well what I mean!" She yelled out, trying to land a punch on him.
Kurt moved to the side to dodge, a punch like this would surely kill him. "What the hell are you doing!?" He shouted out, lifting both of fists up defensively.
"Why American! Why!" Kaga shouted out, with pure anger. Kurt could tell that she was emotionally unstable. This wasn't good. If he touched her, or harmed her it would be considered an international incident.
"Why what!" He shouted back, as she rushed him again. Kurt dodged again, trying to make a bee line for the door. But Kaga quickly grabbed Kurt, and slammed him to the ground. Knocking the wind out of him.
"Why are you so different!" She yelled, jumping on top of Kurt. She reared back her fist for another punch. 'TO HELL WITH INCIDENTS I'M GOING TO GET KILLED HERE!' He screamed out in his head. But in all fairness she had already caused one.
Kaga's fist came falling down like a weight, with the impact to several injure him. But before it could connect, with his skull, he stopped it with both of his hands. He grunted in pain, as he felt the pressure from her fist, begin to break his hands. "What the hell do you mean!?" He shouted out, trying to prevent his death.
"Last time I met Americans they were brutal, and none merciful. My people saw you as monsters." She said eyes full of hatred.
"How do you think we saw you as!" Kurt spat back. This only caused her strength to double, and Kurt yelped in pain.
"I know! And You now you claim to help everyone! You say you want to save this world!" She shouted out, as tears began to fill her eyes.
"We do!" He yelled out, as his hands began to collapse. This wasn't good at all.
"You'll never change!" She screamed, as she slammed both of Kurt's hands to the ground, nearly breaking them. She pinned them, while she stared down at Kurt. He gave her a defiant expression.
"Then why'd I save you! If we're so bad why did we come?" He asked looking up at her, expecting an answer.
"Then if you save everyone, why didn't you save my sister!?" She shouted out, as she lost the little control she had, and began to sob. Her grip on Kurt's arms loosened, and she fell to his chest, clearly emotionally drained. "Do you even know what the Abyssal's do to people." She whispered out.
This caused Kurt's heart to tighten a bit. He knew exactly what they did. He looked at Kaga with a serious expression. "I do. I've been fighting for a long time….. and" He paused for a moment, thinking to himself if he should really tell her. But he put caution to the wind, and told her anyway. "I lost my mother the first day they attacked." He said, with a stern, yet saddened expression. The Aircraft carrier's eyes widened in shock.
"Sheshhhhhh. Why is there so much paper work? I signed up to lead Ship girls not to do paper work." Tansho sighed, as he set down hit pen, on the desk. He leaned back in his desk to stare out the window. 'I wonder what's going to happen now?' He asked himself, thinking of everything that's happened in the past two weeks.
"Stressed as ever Admiral?" A women asked, walking up to his desk. She carried a tray with a small glass of Tea, and a few pieces of paper
"Oh! Houshou I didn't see you there." Tansho jumped, and nearly fell out of he's chair. He hadn't expected one of his Ship Girls to appear out of nowhere like that.
"It's quite alright Admiral." Houshou said with a small laugh.
Tansho quickly got everything on his desk situated, before he looked up at Houshou with a smile. "So did you need something?"
"Well it's the duty of a Secretary Ship to help her Admiral." She said with a smile, as she walked up behind his desk, and set the tray down. Houshou, put her arms gently around his shoulders, and leaned into him. "I also brought you this." She said softly, pointing to the tea. The light reflecting off the golden ring on her hand.
"Thanks for the tea, but what's this?" He asked pointing to the papers on the tray. Light bouncing off his ring, as well.
"It's our latest after action report." Houshou said with a smile.
Tansho looked at the paper reluctantly for a moment. He didn't want to look at the papers, fearing the worse. "Any casualties?" He asked, picking up the papers.
Three weeks ago Tansho sent out a group of Ship Girl's to the national border. He since recalled those girls, but asked them to take their time coming back. To try, and investigate heavy Abyssal presence in Japan's waters. For some strange reason there were massive Abyssal numbers in the waters of Japan, but any of their ships were hardly attacked.
"No Admiral." Houshou said, answering his question. He let out a sigh of relief, before picking up the report.
Operation: Charlie-Tango 12
Main objective: Scout out farther into the Pacific Ocean.
*Please note this goes against the Seclusion Act of 2020
Operation time: Three weeks
Flagship: Nagato
Personnel: Takao, Atago, Ooi, Yamoto, Kongou, Haruna, Kirishima, Hiei, Shigure, Zuihou, and Taihou
Casualties: None
Injured: Ooi, Kongou, Zuihou
Report:
The Battlegroup was recalled upon the day of the attack two weeks ago. The group was about to reach international waters upon the time of the attack. Estimated time till return one hour
End of report
"How'd they get injured?" Tansho asked, with a slight hint of annoyance, and worry. He hated it when his Girls were injuried in combat.
"Abyssals caught them off guard I believe. It's nothing to serious, they should all make be perfectly fine after a quick trip to the Medbay." Houshou said with a smile, reassuring Tansho.
"Thank god." He said with a sigh, as he leaned back in his chair. Houshou began to fiddle with his brown hair.
"You were worried Tansho?" She asked, with curiosity.
"Not really, with Yamato there, nothing was going to go bad, but you're telling me we weren't able to cross the line?" He asked, looking up at her. By line he meant the international line.
"I'm sorry Admiral we weren't able too." She said, with a nod.
"Damn. We took the risk, and gained nothing. If JSDF high command hears about this they'll have my head for sure." He said with slight panic, he knew that high command already didn't like him, but if they heard he did this, then they'll terminate his position. This was beginning to stress him out. He just wished that his country didn't go into isolation.
Suddenly he felt two hands begin to rub his shoulders, he looked up to see Houshou, massaging both of his shoulders, with a smile. "Don't worry Admiral, I'm sure it'll be fine."
Tansho smiled up at his wife. He was lucky to have her. "Thank you Houshou. How's Kaga doing?"
"She's still emotional unstable, after her sister's death I wouldn't blame her. I mean Akagi meant a lot to all of us, but that's nothing compared to how much Kaga cared for her." She explained, as she continued to rub his shoulders.
"She was already pretty antisocial before the loss of Akagi, but now she's shut herself off from everyone." Tansho said, as he stared down blankly, he remembered when news reached Kaga about Akagi's death. She wouldn't come out of her room for a week.
"I'm worried for the Lieutenant." Houshou said suddenly.
"Kurt?" The Admiral asked, looking up at her. Why would she be worried about him? She's barely even heard of him.
"Yes. Kaga still hates America, same as Nagato. I fear she may try to harm the Lieutenant." Houshou explained her distress to him.
Tansho let our a small chuckle, at the thought of it. "I wouldn't worry too much, I think it's good for her, that he showed up." He said to her with a smirk.
"Why?" Houshou asked looking down at him curiously.
"Think about it. She was by his side almost all the time when he was unconscious. She shoed anyone away." He said, with a smirk, recalling the moments he walked by the Lieutenant's room, and seeing Kaga in there with him.
She was always right by bedside, ready to spring up at a moment's notice. Tansho remembered always seeing her mouth the word "Why" to Kurt every time. He didn't dare ask her what she meant when she talked to the Lieutenant.
"You're saying she's becoming attached to the Lieutenant?" Houshou asked, slightly confused. She'd never dream something like that would happen.
"I'm not saying anything, we'll just have to wait, and see." He said. He certainly did think that Kaga had become attached to him, and that something was being built between them.
Suddenly footsteps were heard down the hall, and a couple seconds later a young women burst through the doors. "Admiral!" She panted out, as she stumbled over to his desk. She nearly knocked her glasses off in the process as well.
"Ooyodo what's wrong!" Tansho shouted out, as Houshou went over to help the Girl.
"I-It's the Battlegroup!" She stuttered out. "They're under heavy attack by abyssal forces, about a mile out!" She shouted out, with urgency. She must've sprinted the entire way over here from the command center.
Houshou, and Tansho took a moment to process this before realization hit them. "What!" They both shouted out in unison.
"Yamoto Just radioed in, they're having trouble pushing them back. They need reinforcements immediately!" Ooyodo yelled out, as she continued to receive radio transmissions from the massive battleship.
"Dammit! Houshou sound the alarm! I want a strike group in my office in the next three minutes!" He shouted out, as he got up from his desk with a sense of urgency.
"Yes!" She yelled out, as she quickly ran out of the room to find any available Ship Girl. Once she was clear, Tansho turned around to the waiting Ooyodo, who finally regained her composure.
"Ooyodo head back to the comms room, and try to get more details on the situations." He ordered.
"Understood." She replied, with a salute, running out of the room. She was not looking forward to running again.
Tansho steadily walked up to the window, just as red lights, and sirens began to off outside his windows. Interrupting the calm, and peaceful sunny day. "Damn these creatures." He grunted out, just how many more times was he going to deal with this?
"What the hell's going on!?" Kurt shouted out, as multiple alarms, and sirens began to go off outside of the building.
Kaga instantly shot up, and began to put more of her gear on, that she needed. "An attack." She said, with a worried expression, as she began to equip her chest protector.
Suddenly the a loud speaker in the Carriers dorm began to go off, and the Admiral could be heard from the other end. "I need any available Carrier to report to my office immediately." He said with a tone of urgency.
Kaga was already making her way to the door, when Kurt grabbed her shoulder. "Are you sure you can handle this?" He asked, with concern, but also with seriousness. He may not like being in the military but he knew, that every Soldier needed to be emotionally stable for the Squad.
Kaga simply brushed it off, as a physical health concern. "I'll be fine, these monster's need to be dealt with."
"That's not what I was talking about." Kurt said, as she was about to head out the door again. She suddenly stopped for a moment. "I suggest you get your weapons. The Admiral will likely call on you for aide, as well." The Carrier said, walking into the hallway. "Your rooms directly across from mine. I'll meet you in the Admiral's office." She said walking out of the room, and into the hallway.
The Lieutenant sighed for a moment, he was worried about her, even though he hadn't known her for that, she was clearly suffering from her loss.
He would have to discuss it with Tansho, when this whole ordeal was over. But right now he needed to get his equipment.
He quickly walked over to the room directly across the hall. When he opened the door he was met by a quaint little room. It had a nice looking bed in the far right corner, a dresser in the far lift, a closet, and bathroom directly to his left. At the far end of the room was a decent window. "This place looks more like a hotel, then a military installation." He said to himself. His eyes suddenly widened when he saw what layed in the center of the room.
A decent sized all black military create. He quickly realized that this was the create that Tansho had been talking about earlier. He searched around the create for the thing all these style creates had. The finger print lock. He finally found it on the far side.
"Let's see what little gifts they left me." He said with a small laugh, as he put his finger print on the lock. A second later the create slowly opened in front of him.
On on side of the opened doors lied a few weapons. An SR-25 DMR took up most of the space. Although the SR was usually used as a sniper rifle, it could be modified to be a DMR. It was one of the best weapons he could ask for against the Abyssal's. He could hit them from medium range, with high stopping power, and if it was equipped with explosive rounds, he could take out an Abyssal's torpedo Cruiser with ease. Although if he tried to go against a Battleship, a Siege Engine, or a Hime he would get slaughtered. That's what the Ship Girl's, and the regular warships were for.
Below that layed a Vector Submachine gun, it was a reliable weapon, if he was in a pickle it would come in handy. An M27, Some side arms, and knives also layed below. He would deal with those later.
On the opposite door layed all of Kurt's equipment, and his uniform. His helmet still the same as before hanged on the wall. It was exactly like it was before. His chest plate with all his pouches, and holsters hanged right by it. Some new shoulder armor hanged right by, it looked familiar thin, but it formed to his shoulders. It also had a nice Multi cam pattern like the rest of his uniform. He had similar armor plating for his thighs, and legs.
Once he was finished inspecting all of that, he looked into the create. His eyes widened slightly when he saw what his Exo now looked liked. It was still fairly thin, and everything connected smoothly to the small power pack in back. But when he looked towards where his feet he noticed that they new looked like boots, and were slightly armored. He lifted up on of the legs, and noticed small little holes at the bottom. He inspected more of the armor, and noticed more of the the small little holes near the power pack. Behind his Exo was various different attachments, and ammo for his guns.
"This is new?" He asked, looking at it more, he moved the power pack a little, and a small piece of paper fell out, and onto the ground. Kurt grabbed it, and began to read.
Yo Kurt!
DARPA came up with some sweet new toys for us, while you were out. Our teams already been equipped with them. I know it sounds crazy, but you can float on the water with these. They should activate as soon, as you drop on the water, you can also boost with those thrusters. There should be some buttons on the hands for it.
Anyway. I hope you can handle all those Ship Girl's. You missed on hell of a battle when you got knocked out. We'll be there with the 5th Fleet so just hold out for a bit longer.
From Pat
"Heh. Well leave it up to them to come up with this stuff. Better get ready." He said putting the note down, and sliding his tactical gloves on.
He rolled up his sleeves, and began to equip his Exo. Once he jumped in the, Exo automatically began to equip itself onto him. Kurt waited for a few moments, and quickly put on his chest plate, and strapped all his gear on. Which since the Exo was so thin that his gear fit so snug above it. He slapped on his shoulder armor, and the rest of it.
"Alright should be good to go." He said looking around, he lifted his head up to the clock, and realized he was taking to long. "Damn armor takes forever to put on!" He shouted out.
Kurt grabbed the SR-25, and threw it over to the bed. He reached in, grabbed an ACOG scope, and some ammunition. The Seal slapped on the scope, and loaded his rifle. "Alright let's move." He said grabbing his helmet, and sunglasses.
Kurt ran out the door, and began to jog out of the Carriers dorm, which was now deserted. When he reached the doors, and moved outside it was complete chaos.
Ship Girl's were running left, and right all around him. The sirens were still blaring out, and he could see Ship Girl's in the bay going out to sea.
"Kurt!" Fubuki shouted out, as she ran up to him.
"Fubuki what's happening?" He asked, trying to get a understand what the situation was.
She looked extremely concerned, so Kurt knew something had to be wrong. "Large Abyssal's force, about a mile out from the base. Their attacking a returning battlegroup." She explained to him.
"I need to get to the Admiral." He said, knowing that he needed to help, in anyway he could. He wasn't going to ignore them.
"Alright follow me!" Fubuki said, beginning to run towards the Admiral's office. Kurt immediately began to follow, as they ran he strapped his helmet on, and slipped on his Oakley's.
In no time flat the two were standing on the front steps of his office. "He's on the second floor. Big double doors." She said pointing to the front doors.
"Alright. Thank you Fubuki. Be careful." He said walking up to the doors, and looking back.
"Don't worry I will." She said with determination.
As Kurt began to walk through halls, and up the stairs, he noticed a small mass of Ship Girl's, standing by the Admiral's doors. They immediately stared at Kurt, as he walked through the hallway towards them.
He could see all the Akatsuki sisters watching him, as he walked down the hallway. "No way he looks so cool!" Ikazuchi exclaimed, as Kurt passed them.
"That equipment does look very interesting." Hibiki said in her usual emotionless tone. Other Girls gasped, as he passed them as well.
Luckily they all moved out of the way, so Kurt had a straight shot to his office. He quietly knocked. "Enter." Tansho voice could be heard from the other side. Kurt immediately entered, and walked straight up to the Admiral's desk. "Lieutenant didn't expect you to be here." Tansho said, putting down some papers. Kurt could tell just, by looking at him, that he was stressed.
"I want to help Admiral." Kurt said, getting straight to the point.
Tansho had expected this from the man. From his actions when they first met, he could tell Kurt was a good man. The question was, is was Tansho going to let him? He knew it would be a smart idea, since it could show both country's that they could cooperate. But he didn't know how Kurt could help? He couldn't exactly go out there on the water.
"How exactly are you going to help?" Tansho asked, leaning in. He was sure the Lieutenant had something in mind. The Akatsuki sisters, were now leaning into the doorway, listening to the conversation.
"New Exo's can float on water. Just like our Ship Girl's." Kurt said with a smirk. Tansho's eyes widened in surprise. He hadn't ever heard of that before, but then again even before Japan's isolation, the US was still the leading in Exoskeleton technology.
"What?" Tansho asked. Still a bit shocked.
"New thing made by DARPA. I couldn't tell you how exactly it's going to work. But all I know is that I'll try my best Admiral." He said with a look of determination.
That look was everything Tansho needed. He knew Kurt wouldn't be a burden to the Girl's. "Alright then. You'll be going out with the Carriers. I take it that rifle can do some damage from a far?" He said pointing to his SR-25.
"Medium range Admiral." He said, shifting it in his hands.
"Alright very well. The carrier are out in the bay, I'll radio ahead, and tell them you're coming." Tansho said, pushing something in his ear. Kurt guessed it was a small earpiece. The American Ship Girl's had a similar thing.
"Alright. I'm syncing my comms to yours." He said, pressing the side of his headset, and a second later a small blue light appeared in the corner of his sunglasses. Signaling that he connected to Tansho's comms.
"Understood, now you should get moving Lieutenant." Tansho said tipping his hat. Kurt nodded, and ran out of the room nearly dodging the Akatsuki sisters.
"Let's see what he can do." Tansho said leaning back, and crossing his arms.
Kurt was already flying out of Tansho's office. He knew that reaching the Carriers were the most important things.
"Kaga!" A girl shouted out, as she came gliding up to her on the water. She had long grey hair, that were put into twintails. She wore a shortened miko uniform with arm bracers and thigh boots with propellers protruding from them. You could tell she was an aircraft Carrier. Another girl came up behind her. This girl had long silver hair, with a red hairband. She wore a similar outfit to the other one.
"Oh you two are here finally?" Kaga said, hardly even paying attention to the two. This ticked off the grey haired Girl a bit.
"We'll be leaving in a couple minutes." The silver haired Girl said, with a polite voice.
"Hang on. One moment." Another said, from behind Kaga. The other two hadn't even noticed her. She had brown hair, tied back into a ponytail, with her bangs hanging on each side of her face. She wore a light green kimono.
"What is it Amagi?" The silver hair Girl asked.
"I just received a message from the Admiral. He's says we'll be receiving more support." The Girl known as Amagi said.
Kaga's eyes widened. "More support?"
"We're already flanked by two Destroyer group's." The grey haired carrier asked.
"Did he say who?" Kaga asked.
"No." Amagi said shaking her head.
"I wonder who it could be?" The silver haired Girl asked. The Girl's began to talk amongst themselves, trying to figure out who their reinforcements will be.
Kaga who was waiting for the Girl's to stop talking noticed someone approaching them from the shoreline. "Is that?" She asked, noticing that the person looked familiar. The other's Girl's quickly took notice to the approaching person. Kaga at this time already knew who this person was, but the grey haired Girl already beat her to it. "That's the American I've heard so much about!" She shouted out, pointing to him.
"How's he going to help us?" Kaga asked, as she moved forward towards him. Kurt who was now on the beach, began to sprint towards them. As he picked up speed, the thrusters on his back began to boost him forward.
"He's running awfully fast." Amagi said, slightly worried. What was this man trying to do?
As she asked herself this Kurt suddenly jumped in the air, and all the Ship Girl's just stared with shock at what he did next. All of them expected him to splash down in the water like an idiot, but instead Kurt landed gently on the waters surface.
"Did he just?" Kaga asked herself, face filled with shock. This is something completely new to her. For once she hadn't expected this, from the man. To come charging into battle with them.
"No way." The Carrier with Grey hair gasped.
"How's that possible?" Amagi asked, clearly startled.
Kurt was too busy, trying not to freak out, and trying to hold his balance. After a couple seconds he realized he was going to have distribute his weight. "Holy hell it actually wor-" The Lieutenant, accidentally went to far forward, and smashed right into Kaga.
The Carriers cheeks immediately flushed with red, she quickly pushed Kurt away, and he fell to the water. But instead of falling in his thrusters on his back went off, and he literally sat on the water. His hands though were soaked in the ocean.
The Carriers quickly surrounded Kurt, and he looked up with an awkward smile.
"Well it takes awhile to get it." Amagi said with a soft smile, as she approached Kurt.
"Damn. Thank god for these trusters." He said patting his elbow armor.
Amagi was about to helped Kurt, but Kaga quickly stepped in, and offered Kurt her hand. "Here." The Lieutenant didn't hesitate to take the offer. "Thanks." Be said with a smile.
"So you're our reinforcements?" The grey haired girl asked him, with curiosity, approaching him.
"I believe so." Kurt said with serious expression, checking his SR-25. Lucky for him all his guns were water proof. Gotta love modern technology right?
The grey haired Girl smiled, and moved up to Kurt, and Kaga. "I'm Zuikaku. This is Shoukaku." She said pointing to the silver haired girl. "And Amagi." Pointing to the brown haired Girl.
"Nice to meet you." Shoukaku said, with a slight nod, and smile.
"H-Hello." Amagi said with a stuttered, as she looked away from Kurt. The Seal got a small laugh at this. "It's very nice to meet all of you. I'm Lieutenant Kurt Housley." He said with a smile, introducing himself. All the Girl's, except Kaga smiled brightly at him. He took it she was still mad about the earlier confrontation.
"We've wasted enough time." Kaga said, beginning to move out towards the sea.
Zuikaku stared at her awkwardly for a moment, before turning back to Kurt with an apologetic face. "And that's Kaga."
"I'm well acquainted with her." The Lieutenant said, staring at her, as she moved away from them.
"But she's right. They're depending on us. Let's move." Zuikaku said, as she began to move out. Shoukaku, and Amagi soon followed. Kurt stood still for a moment, trying to control his thrusters. But he was also worrying for the Carrier farthest infront of him.
A second later he began to glide across the water, and move along with them. He wouldn't fail. Little did he know…..everything was about to go to hell.
20 minutes
Everything went to hell.
"Amagi on your right!" Kurt shouted to the exposed aircraft Carrier, but before she could react several shells hit her directly in the right arm, ripping in off, and sending her into him. She crashed violently into Kurt, and sent them both to the ground, or….the ocean surface. "Ahhhhhh!" She screamed in pain, as her body began to slowly sink under the water.
Kurt wasn't going to have any of that. He quickly recovered from his fall, and ran over to Amagi. He kept her afloat, by holding her tightly. "Dammit! Amagi's hurt!" He shouted out to the Carriers infront of him.
Things couldn't have gotten any worse. Things went extremely bad when they arrived. First there were way more Abyssal's then they could've accounted for, and their Destroyer support groups were nowhere to be found.
"This isn't good." Shoukaku said, as she kept moving side to side to their left. Trying to dodge the Abyssal fire.
"Where's our Destroyer support!?" Zuikaku yelled, as she stood infront of Amagi, and Kurt. Kaga was behind all of them launching as many planes as she could.
"Comms says their being delayed at the base." Shoukaku said, trying to launch more planes, but to no success. The Abyssal fleet kept knocking them out.
"Shit!" Zuikaku shouted back in response. This is not how the mission was suppose to go, not at all.
As the Carriers tried to fight off the Abyssal's, Kurt could see the group they were protecting a little ways infront of them. They were fairing about, as great as them.
Suddenly the Seal felt Amagi shift in his arms, and he looked down at her. She was in bad condition. Her kimono was all ripped to hell, and her right arm was completely gone from the elbow down. Amagi also had major puncture wounds all over here body. She didn't have much time. "Amagi's not going to last much longer!" He shouted out with concern. Zuikaku looked back with haste, and saw the injuried Carrier. Her eyes immediately widened, and she quickly began to talk on her comms.
"Yamato how are you doing on ammunition?" She asked, slightly panicking.
"Not good. Almost out! Same for the rest of us. Nagato close to sinking we have to leave! This is worst then Ten-Go!" The women known as Yamato responded back over the comms. If this was worst then Ten-Go, then they really needed support.
Zuikaku hastily turned back to Shoukaku, as shells flew past them. "Radio in again, and tell them we need them now!" She shouted out, yelling at her.
The other Carrier was beginning to crack from the pressure. Kurt could see it. "I'm trying!" She shouted back.
Kurt looked down again at the Carrier, and saw she was barely keeping consciousness.
Surprisinglyn." He said tightening his grip on her. She weakly looked up at him with a weak smile, but then it turned into a terrified expression.
"L-Lieutenant behind you!" She screamed out. Kurt quickly turned around just in time to see an Abyssal Destroyer getting ready to leap out of the water. Time stopped for Kurt. He had a choice, save her, or save himself. He picked the most logical one. He quickly threw Amagi over to Shoukaku. Surprisingly she caught her, and both stared at Kurt just as the Destroyer jumped out of the water.
"Lieutenant!" They both shouted out. Kaga looked over to see this, and she instantly began to move as fast as she could over to him. She did not want to repeat what happened to her sister. But like her sister, she was too slow...again.
As Kaga rushed towards him, Kurt raised his SR in defensive, but he was too slow to react. Gravity was just faster. Kurt looked back for a second to Kaga. The carrier stopped. It all happened in a few seconds.
"Kaga." A voice said threw the wind. The Carrier swore it sounded like Akagi. No it was Akagi. She was telling her not to let this happen again.
She stared at Kurt, and he simply smiled at her, as the Abyssal barreled towards him. "NO!" Kaga cried out, as the Abyssal reached Kurt. She had failed again.
The Destroyer slammed into Kurt, and took him down to the ocean bottom. All the other Carriers looked in horror at what just happened. They've seen it before, but it never changed their view on it. The Abyssal would take take their victim to the bottom of the ocean, and rip them apart, or blow them up. This is what happened to the Carrier Akagi.
Kaga was frozen for a moment. She had just relived the terrifying experience again. She was fed up with it now. She hatted the Abyssal's more then ever now.
Without thinking she rushed past the rest of the Carriers, and towards the battlegroup in distress.
"Kaga where are you going! Stay in formation!" Zuikaku shouted to the older Carrier.
"I'm going to try, and get the heat off of you!" She screamed back, but you could tell that wasn't the Carriers primary goal. She had her own agenda in mind.
"Kaga don't!" Shoukaku shouted to her. She knew exactly what the Carrier was doing.
Kaga payed no mind, and went right into the kill zone. Bullets, and shells ripped past her. Some hit her, and quickly shredded her clothes, but she didn't care. All she cared about was killing these things. She fired planes left, and right. Until a large shell hit her flight deck. Shattering if to pieces. She winced in pain from it, Kaga knew this wasn't good, but still she pressed on, trying to reach the battlegroup. But that's when she saw it out of the corner of her eye. A lone Abyssal bomber carrying a single bomb. She knew exactly what it was. It was something all Ship Girl's feared, an Abyssal suicide bomber.
More shells suddenly flew past Kaga, and she looked forward. Two Abyssal light cruisers were quickly advancing on her, preparing to fire. She had no way to defend herself. She tried to brace for the impact, but even she knew it was no good.
The Cruisers fired.
The shells hit directly in the front sending her flying back. They ripped threw her remaining armor, and her hair became undone.
"KAGA!" The Carriers screamed out, as they tried to reach her. But all of them froze when they saw the fighter approaching her.
"Suicide bomber!" Zuikaku shouted out, in fear. Kaga looked up weakly at the bomber, there was no way she could even come close to save herself.
Everyone watched as the bomber blew Kaga to hell.
She slowly drifted down into the water, barely conscious, she looked to see many Abyssal's swimming threw the water, looking for a chance to attack the Girl's. Blood was now clouding her vision. There was no coming back from this. This was the end of the line for her. She looked to the surface above, and stared at the sunlight. "Akagi..….I did it. I tried my best, but…I couldn't end this war. But I think I did find someone who knows the same pain I felt." She said closing her eyes, as she was prepared to let the Abyss take her. "Huh, that's funny, right as I'm about to die I say that. He wasn't so bad….for an American." She said slowly drifting down into the sea.
Suddenly she felt something strong grip her hand, and literally pull her out of the water. She was pulled with so much force that, the Carrier was almost sent flying in the air. Instead she landed peacefully in the arms of someone.
Her eye's slowly opened, and she saw Kurt holding her, he stared down at her with concern. She looked up at him. "You're not dying on my watch!" He shouted out with determination, and defiance
"K-Kurt?" She stuttered out, as the Carriers began to advance towards their position. This Battle wasn't over, not by a long shot.
Done, done, done, and done with chapter 2!
Sorry this took a lot longer. I had some writers block, but I was able to overcome, and make it into a pretty long chapter.
Now I know there's alot of things to take in during this chapter. Like Kaga being emotional unstable, and Kurt hating the Military, but everything will be answered as the story progresses.
So I thank you all for the support, and have a wonderful day.
Author question: Why do you think Japan cut themselves off from the rest of the world?
