What do? What do? What do? Why, Catch-22!

(not sure what i'm saying, just go with it)

Kure Naval Yards

Yamato stared at her new partner. He stood to her left, waiting in the harbor waters. H44 was checking his cannons, the hulking 508mm beasts that were his main weapons that fired a shell capable of ripping a Kanmusu or an Abyssal in half. At least, that's what Yamato had heard. She thought H44 would be someone of high stature, not wanting to deal with those lower than him. Instead, she got...this.

"So, what's your opinion on hotels?" H44 asked her, still polishing his barrels. Yamato scowled slightly at him, indicating her answer. "Right, forgot about that. Forget I asked."

Yamato sighed, and turned back to watch the entrance of the harbor. H44 placed his barrel back into its turret, and put his rag in his back pocket. He looked towards the sky, and raised his cannons up slightly. Yamato stared at him, wondering what he was doing. H44 suddenly popped the back of his cannon out, the shell of a HE round was still in the chamber. H44 pulled them out, and took some...were those giant drills? H44 loaded them into the chambers of his cannons, and they locked back into place.

"Yamato, how come the Admiral sent out all the fleets today?" H44 asked his partner. "It seems kinda weird to just leave us two and the Communications trio as a defense line."

"The Admiral took inventory last week and had noticed we were running low on pretty much everything. So he sent out the fleets to acquire what we need, and figured if we sent all of them out we could get what we need faster." Yamato responded. "Also, it'll be a great test for us if we are attacked."

"Yamato, I hope you realize that we are probably the two most powerful ships on the base. We don't need a test." H44 returned back to staring at the sea, while Yamato stared at him. H44 was still in his usual armor suit, his mask resting at the top of his head. The Kriegsmarine symbol was still on his chestplate, and H44's newest addition, a small radar device on a small tablet, was resting in its holster on his waist. H44 took out the tablet, and stared at the screen. Yamato turned back to the entrance of the harbor. She had to admit, this was kinda boring. She turned back to H44 to try her luck with some small talk, but H44 tapped his tablet. The small device started to make noises. H44 put it away, and positioned his barrels. Yamato did the same.

At the entrance of the harbor, were a group of Abyssals heading towards them. They looked to be a carrier group. There were four carriers, six dreadnoughts, seven cruisers, and 12 destroyers. H44's cannons seemed to lock on to individual beings, and Yamato aimed at the center carrier.

"Yamato, you wanna see something cool?" H44 asked, Yamato looked at her partner quizzically. H44 fired his cannons, and the drills he loaded in earlier soared through the sky. Each drill hit an Abyssal, and ripped them in half. Literally. Three dreadnoughts and five cruisers bit the bullet in the worst way possible. Yamato recoiled, watching the now corpses fall into the ocean. The center Abyssal stopped, and turned to see eight of her comrades were turned to sixteen pieces. She turned to H44, who was reloading regular shells. She scowled, and released her fighter bombers. The three other carriers did the same, and a wave of fighters soared towards the two battleships. Yamato fired her Type-3 shells, obliterating a number of fighters. H44 fired a salvo of HE shells, which took out 6 destroyers. He cursed as the two other shells ricocheted off of a dreadnought. Yamato sped to the left, while H44 went to the right. They both were stuck in a reload phase, while shells rained down on them.

"Yamato, any ideas? I can't reload fast enough to finish off those carriers!" H44 shouted.

"I don't think I can deal with those dreadnoughts, if your HE shells somehow bounced off her armor! I can finish those planes off, but you need to destroy the ships!" Yamato shouted back.

H44 nodded, and finished his reload. Three of his turrets aimed at carriers, and one took aim at a dreadnought. He fired AP rounds, and they obliterated the carriers. The dreadnought looked, and heard a single turret fire. She looked up, only for a shell to hit her straight in the core. The dreadnought exploded, leaving the rest of the Abyssals to slowly back up. They fired a last salvo, and retreated. Some shells hit the duo, most of them bounced. One was lucky, and hit H44 straight to his leftmost turret. The smoke cleared, and H44 looked to see his was unhurt. Well, he was okay. The turret was another story. It was completely busted, both barrels were bent and dented in different ways, and the loader was damaged.

"Hey Yamato, I think I need to take a quick break…" H44 started, but Yamato raised her hand to stop him. "What?"

"H44, if I know anything about you, this 'quick break' will undoubtedly be an all day affair with your repair speed." Yamato stated. "Why don't I go with you?"

"I can get to the bath-house on my own, thanks." But Yamato was already dragging him away. H44 sighed, he knew today was going to be a long day if Kongou saw him with-

"Yamato! What are you doing with H44?!"

H44 mentally cursed, "Not again…"

And I'm out!