Shimakaze sighed as she and Tenryuu looked along the shore of the fifth small island they had found in the chain, still not having found a single tonne of resource. "This is pointless! What the heck could we possibly find on an island chain!"

"Give it a rest; this will take time, Shimakaze!" Tenryuu said as she walked the beach behind Shimakaze, glancing into the small bushes that made up the island's center.

"We haven't found a single thing and there's only one island left!" Shimakaze raged as she pointed to a large island a little farther away.

"Then let's head on over to it. With any luck we'll find the resources we need!" Tenryuu said as the two of them turned and ran off across the water towards the last island. As they neared it, they could tell that, unlike the previous ones, it was more than just a slab of sand, having a towering spire of shrub covered rock jutting out of it's center. The side they approached had no beach so the two of them instead went around its back side, and were shocked as to what was there. Embedded in the thick rock spire and jutting out into the ocean, holes and rust all over it, was the ruined carcass of a World War 2 cruiser.

The cruiser's hull was rotted through at many points, and entire areas of what remained were covered in rust. The top of the cruiser was non-existent except for a few spines, spikes and spires of metal, the rest of its top having been lost when it likely took fire. Like the top of it, both of the guns on its top were merely wreckage, mere shadows of their former selves.

"W-what? " Shimakaze managed to say as the two of them looked in both interest and fear at the fate before them, the fates of their former selves.

Circling the wreckage they looked on in awe, unable to tell what was damage from time, and damage that led to its sinking. All that was visible on its side was worn lettering that Tenryuu could not read, forcing her to make a guess on the ships origin. "It looks like the Nagara class, Abukuma!" Tenryuu said in shock." I thought it was supposed to have sunk near Negros₁!"

"That's in the Philippines, nowhere near us!"

"It's not the first time that given information and the actual information have not matched up." Tenryuu said with a grim look. "Let's take a look."

"Huh! There no way, that's heretical! Would you want someone looking through your previous self's corpse?" Shimakaze demanded loudly as her Rensouhou's circled her with smiles on their faces, unawares of the argument around them.

"No, but something doesn't sit right with me about this. Information can be wrong, but it's rarely this wrong. And the Abukuma was sunk from bombs, but there are holes all over its hull. Even below where the waterline would be. The wreckage of its guns looks wrong as well. They're too small of a calibre."

Shimakaze looked at Tenryuu for a moment before realizing what she had meant. "You think it's a fake?"

"Yeah, and I say we check it out. If it isn't she deserves a proper burial. If it is, well, We should find out!"

"But – where would we go in? We can't climb it. It looks like it'll break in an instant. And what if we encounter the enemy, we're not equipped for full on combat at this time!"

"You have your Rensouhou's and I have my katana, we'll be fine." Tenryuu stated resolutely. "We'll go in the bottom, which should tell us what we want to know right away!"

Knowing she would not convince Tenryuu otherwise Shimakaze followed her toward the wreckage, and through a massive hole in the hull. Inside, they were shocked at what they saw, and what it proved. The inside of the hull was empty apart from massive piles of modern ammunition, fuel and steel, arranged neatly along the side without holes. The ceiling dripped water off of its completely clean and smooth surface. The holes on the hull did not have blade of metal coming out from where the impacts would have been, being instead completely filed down exactly like a fake wound would have been.

"This is, look at all that resource!" Tenryuu exclaimed, ignoring the inner hull completely as she ran over and began grabbing handfuls of resource and piling into the backpack over her shoulder.

Following suit Shimakaze walked over and began doing the same, though far more cautiously. "I don't like this, how did this all get here?"

"I'm not sure, but its free game so we'll grab it and go. This is obviously fake wreckage though. We'll inform the admiral about it when we get back."

"I agree with that, well just-,"

Skeeeeeee.

"Did you hear that?" Shimakaze asked suddenly, dropping the last handful of fuel into her backpack.

"Hear what?" Tenryuu asked as she leaned over the last tiny pile of steel. "Are you sure you're not just hearing things?"

SKEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

"You heard it that time right!" demanded Shimakaze as she began looking around frantically.

"Okay, yeah. I heard that, but what was it?" Tenryuu said as she too began looking around a well.

As the two of them looked around the cavernous ruins they spied a pool of deep black water. As they gazed upon the water it began bubbling up and out of it came the shapes of almost a dozen abyssal I-class destroyers. The first to pop up out of the water flew toward Tenryuu who, without a second thought, swung her blade and sliced it cleanly in half.

"Let's get out of here!" Tenryuu screamed as the two of them bolted for the hole in the hull, as even more I-class destroyers popped out of the water in attempt to strike them. Within a minute they had left the fake wreckage and were rushing across the water, but now on the open sea, the I-classes were following them.

"Damn it, they're following us! We have to lose them!" Shimakaze stated as she darted to the side, dodging a shot from an I-class.

"We could try taking them out." Tenryuu replied as she ducked and swerved to make herself a harder target as she looked back. "Though with that many of them and us not having our full gear. . . "

"We can't take that many! They may only be I-class, but there's dozens of them!"

"Weren't you the one wanting to get into a fight for some experience?"

"But that's-.."

"Have your Rensouhou-chan's fire on them to cover me, I'll go in close range and destroy as many as I can. We'll make them so scared they run from us!" Tenryuu ordered with a smirk as she flipped her blade in her hands.

"Are you sure about this?" Shimakaze asked.

"Not at all, but it's all we got! Come and get me you little shits, I'll make you afraid of me yet!" Tenryuu yelled as she rushed toward the enemy, her blade to her side and ready to strike.

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Admiral Yin sat on the edge of the docks with Wo beside him, watching the sun slowly slide toward the horizon.

"I don't like this, Wo," Yin said quietly as he fiddled with the base's tablet on his lap. "Tenryuu and Shimakaze keep getting bits of experience every few moments, and have been for a while now. I'm worried."

"Wo."

"I just hope they're okay. An expedition isn't supposed to mean finding enemies but I guess it's always a possibility. As long as-,"

"Wo, wo, wo,wo!" Wo began staring as she hopped up and down and pointed out to the horizon.

Squinting to see, Yin could make out two shadows coming toward them, and within the minute was relieved to see Tenryuu and Shimakaze return. As they got to the docks Yin could see the telling signs of battle, severe battle. "What the heck happened?"

Shimakaze and Tenryuu both looked at him nervously as the climbed up onto the dock. "We, uh, hit a small snag when gathering resources." Shimakaze said.

"So you did find resources then?"

"Fufufu, you doubted us? We found the mother lode of resources. And I-class destroyers that had made a fake cruiser wreckage to hide in." Tenryuu stated as she sheathed her sword, finally knowing they were safe.

"That explains the XP increases I was seeing for the two of you. Did you destroy all of the I-class's?"

Tenryuu shook her head. "No, we only destroyed about half a dozen allowing us to escape from pursuit."

"I see. Looks like we'll have to take them out at some point. . . . No matter. You've completed the expedition and gotten yourselves some levels each. Let's put those resources in the storage and make that battleship!" Tenryuu and Shimakaze nodded and followed him back to the factory, Wo following just behind them, riding atop a Rensouhou.

In the factory they quickly went about piling the resources into the rooms, adding up the total amounts and then methodically bringing out the needed resources and stacking it in a neat pile in the center of the room.

"Okay, what next?" Yin asked a nearby maintenance fairy as Wo placed the last tonne of fuel onto the pile.

The fairy looked to Yin and smiled. "Just look to the pile, think of what class of ship your wanting, and clap!"

"I heard it was strangely easy, but were we seriously built that way? " Tenryuu said as she picked up Wo and noticed the red tips to her tentacles. "Did you get into paint?"

"She didn't get into any kind of paint, the tips just kind of became red. I noticed it earlier today and I'm not sure what brought it on." Yin commented as he stepped up to the pile and closed his eyes, thinking on what class he wanted for his fleet, a battleship.

"I see. Well, I'll worry about it later. Let's see our new ally!" Tenryuu called as Yin clapped his hands together hard before the various resources. For a moment nothing happened, then the resources lit up in a blinding light. When the light died down Shimakaze Tenryuu and Yin bore witness to their new ally. Her red skirt and white sarashi highlighted her dark skin and white hair magnificently. Behind her the massive forms of her many guns shone brilliantly in the light as she stepped forward with a smile and greeted them all.

""This Yamato class battleship, Musashi, greets you. It will be a pleasure to work with you all, I'm sure!"