Sorry for the latest episode which ends up pretty short ^^;; as a compensation, I'll release this one faster than the usual, also, you might wanted to see the side story here: s/10936677/1/Hatsuyuki-Ganbareru-Hatsuyuki-Will-Do-Her-Best

hope you guys will come to like it :D
O yea, my disclaimer is absent from the beginning... my bad...

thanks for reading this far!

"As you might've guessed we've found another seed." Admiral Shirogane says. He's currently leading an emergency meeting with his ships.

The room's pitch dark with the projector's light as its only lighting. Everyone's putting their serious face, except for Hiei who seems to be sleeping on the seat to the back of the room.

"Some of you might have seen the potential of this kid on the joint practice with admiral Hayabusa's squadron." Shirogane added, "but of course that would also means someone needs to take a good care of the girl in case things goes wrong just like earlier. That's where Batsubyou and Era would do their job." Batsubyou the cat and Era the girl in brown twin-pigtailed hair stands from their seats, "As you've known." This two had already been on service to maintain the rift created by the compass girl to ensure your safety during every mission. Now that their focus will eventually be split up, you might want to be at an extreme cautious on your mission this day onward." Batsubyou and Era sits right after a nod from admiral Shirogane at the end of his sentence.

"As for now we still have no green-light to attack this seed. But the HQ wanted to get rid of this one as soon as possible. Why? Because of this." Suddenly the layer behind him changes into a view of the ocean… it then moves pretty fast toward an object… it's a seed.

As usual, the sea surrounds it were covered in deep black gooey materials. It's as if the seed itself was an active volcano. Nearing the middle of the gooey things, Everything looks "normal" as a seed area with a towering shape that sprouts out in the middle, which is the seed. But as the view gets zoomed… everyone gasped.

"Weren't those…" I can hear Yuubari's voice, but she didn't completes her sentence because we've all knew what that is… about five abyssal ships are on the screen. They are of the Re class battleship whom were guarding the seed. The seed itself kind of looks like a huge coffee bean with darker color and strange thread enclosing it which squiggles around on a tentacle like movement.

"We also got report that these Re-Classes is attacking Hayabusa's Naval base as we speak." Everyone gasps at the word Commander spoken "and that's why we created this Makigumo."

"But why destroyer type?" Yuubari asked, "I meant no offence though, but those Re-class could stop a 46 cm with their one palm…"

"Our real goal is of course not the Re Class. As you knew, once a seed got destroyed, the surrounding abyssal fleet will lose their fighting capability. With the destruction of a seed that big, I'm pretty sure those Re Class would have little to do in the future."

"So you wanted a destroyer to actually destroy a seed?" Yuubari keeps pushing the admiral for more info about the mission, the rest of us could only watches…

"Actually, that's what the HQ wanted, but I do have a strategy to come with it."

"And that is…"

"This…" the admiral once again changes the projector so that it shows a room full of scientist, at the center of the room was a glass container with a strange bullet covered in what looks like tendons… "We are generating a special small caliber shell to destroy the seeds."

"And what about the Re Class? You don't actually expect them to stand down seeing their seeds being destroyed now, did you?"

"Of course not. I've counted them too. That's why we're not doing this on a single small squadron, we'll propose the Seed Raid Operation to the HQ." The projector once again changes what it projects, now what appears on the projector is the map of the previously seen seeds. "First of all the We'll gather our elite Battleships and Carrier division from across the pacific, and we'll send waves and waves of our attack toward this Re-Classes. As usual, abyssal ships that lurks nearby their seeds will be easily reconstructed almost instantly unless they were sunk for certain number of times. The main fleet with the help of the support fleet will try to at least take the Re classes' attention while the secondary fleet will sneak around and deliver the shells to the seeds. I'll perfect the plan while we wait the order to strike."

" I See…" Yuubari starts to calm down.

"To be honest though, the HQ did propose a…" Shirogane makes a quotation mark with his hands, "more 'effective' way to destroy it though…"

"Don't say…" I could only find one way a destroyer could easily destroy a seed…

"Yes, Inazuma… you and the rest of this fleet might have known this strategy that had long since abandoned; detonating a destroyer inside the seed. But of course we should try to avoid that being a necessity."The room suddenly filled with everyone's murmur, "But of course."Commander's word, which was stressed at the end, managed to keep the room silent again, "I'll try my best not to make it a necessary. So I hope you girls would understand the situation."

The room is then filled with despair and silence "Well that is all for now, you're all dismissed." Commander finished the meeting and it doesn't took a minute before the meeting room almost emptied. Only the admiral, Kirishima, Hiei and I were left behind. Kirishima was busy turning off all electronic appliances while Hiei is busy tending her dream.

"So… commander…" suddenly Shirogane patted my head without saying a word, I knew what this means… he had done this several times before, "Commander…"

An awkward silence ensue, I kind of forgot what I was about to say and Shirogane was just standing still like a head patting statue…

"Admiral, the room has been cleaned up I suppose we'd better…" Kirishima had just carried Hiei on her back when she said that, but she ended her line after seeing what happened, she then decided to take back her words and get her sister to the barrack.

It took about a minute before Shirogane took his conscious back, "Thanks, and sorry, that is the best deal I could ask to the HQ."

"I-it's ok Commander, it's not like you're doing it on purpose or anything. I also know how bad it will be to let those five Re-Class around this water for too long…"

"You must be tired after this long day; please get a rest, this week will be quite a long week for us." Shirogane releases his patting hand off me before he sink his hat further down his head and leaves me in the meeting room alone.

I've got to go through this again huh…

"Leave this one to me, you go rescue the Cruisers."

"B-but… that's suicide!"

"If we didn't do this now, it'll be the end of what we've been protecting all along Inazuma."

"I… I was the one whom were supposed to be detonated… as a lady, I shall… *cough*cough"

"Akatsuki… Big sis, I'm sorry if this sounds harsh, but if you're the one to go, at least in that condition, I doubt you could even touch that seed."

"Ikazuchi…

Ah.. I… think I need some rest…

I decided to get through the meeting room's automatic door and used my finger scan to lock it up. I sighed to myself…

"Hey…"

That voice… "B-big sis?" when I turn myself around, Akatsuki greets me with a smile, she held her hat with her right hand before she hugged me, "B-big sis…" Akatsuki decided to leave our hug on a silence… somehow this situation causes my tear to flood over.

"Just let it out Inazuma…" she said as she patted my shoulder… at that word, my eyes were like a dam being destroyed by a bomb… it took me several seconds before I dried out my eyes.

"I… I don't know if I could do this again…"

"Hey, you've grown stronger than before now… I believe you could do this. The Commander trusted you from the beginning right? That means he knew you could do this."

"But, I… can't really stand to see my comrade being used like that anymore."

"Commander told us that he'd think up a better plan now didn't he? Let's just trust his word for now, shouldn't we?" I nodded to that question and Akatsuki releases her hug.

"Thanks… big sis…"

"N-nah, I'm just doing what a fine lady would do to cheer her friend that's all." She says as she blushes and smiled proud, but then she released a sigh and held down her cap, "After all, I was at fault back then… if I hadn't…" to that word, I shook my head as fast as I could.

"No, no one's at fault for that… Ikazuchi… she was just protecting us all that's what happened…" I say as I hold the hairpin on my collar "or at least that is what I thought I heard over the radio that day…"

"Inazuma…"

"Привет, товарищ! (Privet, Tovarishc!)" that greetings and voice, "How could you not invite me in this gathering, ужасно (uzhasno)." It's Hibi… Верный, Verniy, though she called us terrible, she actually proceed to cuddles the three of us without further words.

"Verniy…" I say.

"Want to call it a day for now?" Verniy says after she finished with her cuddling.

"Ah, I got to go to see the new recruit first." I say as I bowed to my sister ships and hurry to the infirmary

"Hey who give you the permission to go alone!" suddenly a hand held my shoulder, it's Akatsuki's right hand.

"Desdiv 6 shall go together!" Verniy added

"A… unm" I nodded at that.

"хорошо!"(harasho)

Though at that night… Makigumo did not wake up… the three of us decided to sleep there but only Akashi and the sun greets us the next morning.