"Now, would you please tell me the truth about what you have been doing and how long you have been working for the abyssal fleet?" A young man in a light grey shirt and black pants asked as he stood on the opposite side of the massive steel bars that separated him from Akitsu Maru. "I swear that if you tell me the truth I will do my best to have your sentence minimized."

The cell that Akitsu Maru sat in was made of bleak grey concrete with a metal grid work across it. The metal bars that split the cell from the hallway beyond were bright silver, and was almost a half foot in diameter. The bars were crossed, making it a grid just like the walls. There was no lock that Akitsu Maru could to see, and she did not notice any hinges or connection to the wall.

"I already told you everything that happened to me. None of it has changed since the last admiral questioned me." Akitsu Maru responded seriously as she sat in the center of the cell, her chair the only thing in the cell aside from the cells single decrepit futon.

The man on the other side of the bars sighed to himself and leaned back on his own chair, his head resting against the wall. "Please stop this farce. I have read the reports from the admirals that questioned you. Such an outlandish story is, highly improbable. If you'd just work with me here, I could get you out with minimal charges. Just tell me the truth, please!"

Akitsu Maru let out a groan of exasperation, "I am telling you the truth. I know it seems impossible, but it is true!"

The man looked at Akitsu Maru for a moment and scowled, sighing to himself again. "Please just stop lying. I don't want any ship girl to get hurt; but I have been told that if you do not respond truthfully, that there may be torture involved in the future. So please, for your own sake, tell me the truth. I am not an admiral, nor am I aligned with the military. So please. . . . Please tell me the truth."

"That is the truth." Akitsu Maru said again, her tone serious and her face unchanging as she spoke.

The man before her sighed to himself slowly and then carefully stood up without making a sound, only speaking when he began walking away and stopped just before leaving Akitsu Maru's sight. "I see. If that is what you wish. Please do not blame me for what could happen, but I will do my best to limit your sentence. I believe you."

Akitsu Maru listened until the man was completely gone and let out a sigh of relief. From the way he spoke as he left, he likely did honestly believe her. The problem was that from the way he said it, it did not seem likely that anyone would believe what she said.

Because of the cell's location and lack of windows, Akitsu Maru could not tell what time of day it was, nor could she tell if it was night or day. Because of the strange hours of her usual work, her internal clock was more than just a little off. So by the time another person came to speak to her, she was unsure of how much time had progressed, but she did know that a lot had indeed passed.

"Do you have anything to say before I tell you why I am here?" A dark looking Tatsuta said a she walked up to the cells bars and glared in at Akitsu Maru. The Tatsuta was wearing a deep white and black outfit with accents of blood red on it, completely unlike what any normal ship girl would wear. Even worse, she was wearing her equipment, and held in her hand her glaive, and a very large odd looking object that Akitsu Maru could not make out.

"I have said everything I know already." Akitsu Maru said carefully as she got up off the floor where she had been laying and walked over to the chair that stood in her cell.

"I see," Tatsuta said as she connected the odd object onto the bottom of her glaive, her smile twisting wickedly as she did. "Then how about we loosen those lips of yours!?" Tatsuta yelled in a fit of glee as she swung her glaive around, thrusting it through the bars of the cell, and into Akitsu Maru's shoulder.

The pain that Akitsu Maru felt was beyond any she had ever felt, and it only got worse. Pulling the blade back out of Akitsu Maru's shoulder, Tatsuta watched as Akitsu Maru's blood seeped onto the floor, then thrust her blade back into the wound, twisting her blade inside it. The blade was not alone however, alongside it, came electricity.

The pain assaulted Akitsu Maru's body to such an extent that her breath would not move. She could not act as the current forced its way through her body. And when Tatsuta pulled the blade out, all Akitsu Maru could do was fall to her knees, steam wafting off her body.

"I can do this all day, and it will not stop until you speak the truth," Tatsuta said with a sick smile as she twirled her glaive outside of the cell then held it to thrust forward again.

"I- I have been. It's outrageous but it, "Akitsu Maru said as she tried to stand up, though her legs would not let her.

Without warning Tatsuta swung her glaive through the bars, catching Akitsu Maru's shoulder and widening the gash even further, while sending another bolt of electricity through her body. "Without your equipment you will not be able to stand up to such wounds for long. . . . . . . . . If you do not tell me the truth within the next hour, I am to execute you; and I will do so in the most painful way possible!

Akitsu Maru felt all of her hope drain out of her body .Her fate had already been written, and no one cared to believe her. "I've been telling everyone the truth! Why won't you believe me?" Akitsu Maru pleaded as she could feel tears well up in her eyes and slowly slide down her face.

"Why? Why would anyone believe such ridiculous lies!" Tatsuta yelled fanatically as she swung her blade in and out of the cell as she spoke. "A monster chained deep in the ocean? The Abyssals being human like and having personality and emotions? The monster idea lone is laughable, but the idea of Abyssals having emotions is just sick! They are monsters, nothing more! Now tell me the truth or shall I carry your sentence out this minute?"

"I did! I already told you!" Akitsu Maru cried, her tears now wetting the floor alongside her own blood.

"Then your sentence will be carried out. Goodbye traitor!" Tatsuta said as she raised her glaive up and thrust it forward.

Akitsu Maru watched the glaive as it moved toward her head. She could not move or even speak, her body frozen through fear and sadness, the same fear that made that single moment drag on as if time had frozen completely.

She wasn't sure what to think. She had thought she had been doing the right thing. The abyssal hadn't been cruel to her, and she had been able to tell that they no longer had ill will towards humans or ship girls as they once had. But from a human point of view they had caused untold destruction and killed tens of thousands. It was not something that could be just forgiven or forgotten. She had tried to keep a secret and now the entirety of the navy figured her for a traitor. They probably thought they were doing the right thing, just as she did.

Thinking that, Akitsu Maru noticed something coming into view toward Tatsuta's head, and her eyes opened in surprise as Tatsuta was punch down the hallway and out of her sight, a heavy crash signalling that she had struck a wall. Before Akitsu Maru could move or even exclaim her surprise, the one who had punched Tatsuta stepped into view, a look of disdain painting her face.

"I can't believe any ship girl would be so willing to execute another. It's disgusting." Yamato said as she gripped a bar to Akitsu Maru's cell with her nearest hand.

"W-what are you doing, Yamato?" Akitsu Maru managed to cough out, blood leaking from between her teeth as she spoke.

"I'm doing what I think is right." Yamato said sternly as she placed her other hand on the bars of the cell and began yanking on them, the metal creaking as she did.

"Wh-what, do you mean" Akitsu Maru said with a wheeze.

Yamato looked at Akitsu Maru for a moment and then sighed, taking her hands off the bars for a moment. "I was sent to find the abyssal you were supposed to be in league with and destroy them. I was told to do so right after I was able to get any information of them from you when you returned. After you left Kitakyushu I left, and only a few minutes out, I met one of them. What you told me had me thinking, so when I met them, I spoke to them honestly."

"Then, you believed what I told you?"

"I believed what you told me before I spoke to them, but speaking to them in person was very enlightening. I decided that I would do what I felt was right.

"What, what is that?"

Yamato looked at Akitsu Maru and smiled. "I decided I'd stand by my sister. But there's a question you need to answer. What do you want to do?"

Akitsu Maru was not sure how to answer Yamato's question initially. But as she thought it over in her head her desires became clear. She knew the navy was doing what they thought best but they were ignoring a chance for peace. She knew the abyssal had been their enemies, but now they were something less, or perhaps something more. They had no quarrels with humans anymore and were working to protect them from an enemy they did not know about. If the navy wanted her dead for giving them the truth, there was only one real way to protect those humans she did care about, only one way to continue protecting japan. "I- I want to protect Japan from that monster. If I can't do it from here, I'll do it from the sea." Akitsu Maru said as she could feel herself becoming slightly dizzy from blood loss.

Yamato smiled as she reached into her pocket and pulled out what looked to be some sort of radio, flicking its only button before putting it back in her pocket. "In that case, we better get you out of here so we can get going.

"W-wait, you, you can't come with-ack." Akitsu Maru tried to say before coughing up a bit of blood.

"I am going with you, but first we need to get you out of that cell" Yamato said as she gripped the bars and wrenched on them, the bars creaking horrible from her actions, but not budging in the least. "Argh, I don't know what these bars are made of, but they're not budging!"

"Can you d-destroy them?"

"Yes, but eat this first." Yamato said as she let go of the bars for a moment and reached into her pocket, pulling out a small black marble that she tossed to Akitsu Maru.

"What is-?"

"It's what the abyssal use for buckets apparently. If I'm going to destroy the bars you need to be at full strength. Eat it."

Akitsu Maru coughed a bit of blood up and picked up the marble off the ground, putting it into her mouth and swallowing. It was painful, and she had to force it down, but as soon as she swallowed it she could feel the pain in her body slowly beginning to disappear. Before she could speak up, she watched as Yamato stepped back and lowered her guns, each barrels tip resting against the bars. Without warning she fired all of her guns, and the blast sent Akitsu Maru against her cells back wall.

When the dust cleared the bars of the cell were no longer in existence, and the walls were cracked and splintering. Slowly getting up from the floor, and pushing the bits of rubble off of her body, Akitsu Maru looked on in surprise at the devastation around her. She always knew that Yamato's guns were supremely powerful, but being so close to them when they fired was terrifying.

"Are you alright, Akitsu Maru?" Yamato asked with a smile, waving her hand around a bit to get rid of some of the smoke and steam wafting off her guns.

"Yeah, I'm fine. I think. Should we-?" Akitsu Maru began to say, before the sudden sounds of explosions resonated in the building, shaking them, and making dust shake all around them, "W-what was that!?"

"That would be our help. Let's get going before anyone realizes I'm helping you escape." Yamato said happily as Akitsu Maru walked up beside her and they both stepped up to the door to the jails.

"Too late, you traitors!"

Both Akitsu Maru and Yamato turned around to see Tatsuta standing before her, the entire one side of her face bruising over as she aimed her guns at the two of them.

"That was a good hit, but it won't keep me down. I'm going to execute both of you right this minute!"

Time slowed to a crawl as Tatsuta moved to fire upon them. Neither of them was close enough to tackle or attack her, and Yamato's gun could not angle to attack her. If she attacked they both would likely be showered by shells. It seemed like the situation was turning grim, until the wall beside Tatsuta exploded inward, showering her with rocks and debris, knocking her to the ground as it all piled up atop her.

"What? Is the base under attack? No, that's impossible! It's the headquarters!" Akitsu Maru exclaimed in surprises as she looked over the pile of rubble atop Tatsuta, her hand that poked out of the ruble clenching a bit, telling her that she was alive, but unable to move.

"Well, attack isn't the wrong word," Yamato said as she walked past Akitsu Maru and over the pile of rocks, looking through the hole in the wall. "Zuikaku and Furutaka said they would provide us a, distraction for us to escape when I gave them the signal."

"Wait, then that radio you pulled out earlier?" Akitsu Maru asked as she followed Yamato over the rubble, feeling bad for the fact that she was literally walking all over Tatsuta.

Dropping out of the hole the rubble had created Akitsu Maru found Yamato and herself in the alley beside two buildings and instantly was shocked by what she saw. The sky was filled with abyssal fighter and bomber craft that seemed to circle overhead before taking a quick strafing run, and she could see small fires on buildings. The sounds of battle were all around them, but she could not see or hear any other ship girls nearby; all of them were likely out to see or right at the edge of the docks fighting.

"Yeah, I called them. But I think they brought some extra forces with them. This is a little bit more than a distraction." Yamato said with a light laugh, surprising Akitsu Maru a bit as the two of them walked down to the end of the alley.

Jumping from alleyway to alleyway to shadowed building side they did not meet a single ship girl, but that changed when Yamato peeked her head around a corner, and very quickly brought it back, a look of worry covering her face.

"We have a problem."

"How so?" Akitsu Maru asked as she moved to look around the corner, until Yamato stopped her by placing a hand on her shoulder.

"There are dozens of other ship girls around the corner looking all over, probably for us. If we even run past this street we'll be seen."

"So we just go back around and-,"

"We can't go back; we'll run the risk of running into more people."

"Then what do we do?"

Yamato was quiet for a moment before nodding to herself and looking at Akitsu Maru seriously. "I'll get their attention, you run for the pier!"

"What! Even with your equipment and armour if there are that many they could overwhelm you!" Akitsu Maru said.

"I'm not too sure about that!" Yamato said with a smile as she raised an arm and caused her guns to lift up, signaling their readiness to fire. "I will hold them off and meet you at the docks, so go!"

Before Akitsu Maru could say anything Yamato smiled again and swiftly went around the corner, leaving Akitsu Maru to get to the docks herself. Walking down the alley toward the other ship girls Yamato smiled to herself. She felt strangely good, and not because of the adrenaline in her system. She felt good because it finally felt like she was doing something worthwhile. As an LSC ship she was rarely called upon for anything, and the few times she had it had been ridiculous things like slaughtering large numbers of abyssal that others could do just as well. She hadn't needed the experience in a long time, and with every mission she received, her own actions seemed to make less and less of a difference. But now she had made her own choice for the first time in what had seemed like an eternity, she was going to standby Akitsu Maru and fight for what she now saw as right. The war had raged on long enough, and she would see it through to the end, as one who helped end it the right way!

"Hey, who are you, don't move or we will open fire!" Yamato heard a ship girl ahead of her call out.

She could tell that Akitsu Maru had run off as she had told her too. She wasn't sure how she knew, but she did, and it made her feel all the safer, because now she could finally let loose. Stepping into the opening where the other ship girls stood looking at her she smiled and spread her arms out as if embracing them, her guns moving about as she did. "Hello, are you all looking for someone?"

"Do not move, Yamato! Where is the traitor!" a Choukai demanded as she, and every other ship girl before her pointed their guns at Yamato.

"The who? Is there a traitor around?"

"Don't play coy with us! Where is she! Tell us or we'll kill you right here for freeing her!"

Normally Yamato would feel worried or even scared if she had so many guns pointing at her, but for some reason she didn't. Despite what people always said about her, she was far from indestructible, yet for some reason she felt like she was.

"Answer us already!" a nearby Tenryuu yelled angrily as she stepped up toward Yamato and swung her sword down at her.

Yamato raised an arm to stop Tenryuu's blade, and when it stuck her, the sword chipped, and her arm was completely unharmed, her armour was more than enough to stop a cruisers attack.

"G-get her!" A cruiser called suddenly, though Yamato could not tell who said it as they all opened fire upon her. Their cannons and guns sent shells and cannon fire toward her, and she felt every single shot strike her body and her equipment, but she just barely had felt them. Her armour was great, but even still if they continued to strike her, her armour would sunder indefinitely. So she went on the offensive.

Firing her 46cm cannons their shells blasted large holes in the cement and sent easily half of the ship girls, if not more, onto their backs many meters away. As the dust and smoldering smoke began to clear it was clear to every ship girl that hadn't been hit that she was completely serious.

"You traitor!" The Tenryuu called out as she pulled herself up from the ground and grabbed her sword, rushing toward Yamato.

Yamato sighed to herself and turned to the Tenryuu, swinging her clenched fist right into her torso. Tenryuu's body went limp as soon as she was hit, and then her body quickly found its way into a nearby wall.

"Make it to the ocean, Akitsu Maru. I'll be right behind you as soon as I send everyone here to the docks for a week." Yamato muttered to herself as she looked over to the rest of the ship girls nearby. It was time to send them on a prolonged bath in the docks.

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Akitsu Maru moved carefully between the buildings, hoping she would not meet any ship girls as she made her way towards the docks. She hadn't liked the idea of Yamato taking their attention, but there was little she had been able to do about it, and she knew that Yamato could hold her own with her strength alone. Her title of the strongest ship girl in history was not for show after all.

Compared to Yamato, she was barely as strong as a human. Being a support ship she was not strong, and she knew that if she got into a fight now, without her equipment, she stood no chance.

Hearing the sounds of battle to all sides and above her Akitsu Maru could not tell if there was any safe path she could take. Even worse, with how large the Naval Headquarters facilities were, she was likely barely half way to the docks.

It was not a situation she liked to be in. She had to get out of the base, and the only way to do so was the docks. But with how much noise was all around her, there were likely many dozens of other ship girls running around fighting. Some of them were likely looking for her as well, meaning she had to be careful, otherwise she would run into someone who unlike herself, was armed.

Hugging the corner of a building, Akitsu Maru took a moment to catch her breath, and realized the sounds of battle around the corner had ceased when they had been audible moments before. Had the battle moved elsewhere? Or had someone won over their enemy? If the ship girls had won or were resting, she'd be moving into a battle she could not win. But if it was the other way around, not moving forward and finding out would be just as bad and could cost her time.

Taking a careful look around the corner, Akitsu Maru could not initially believe what she saw. Dozens of ship girls were lying all over the ground, their equipment broken and large bruises over their bodies. Small shell craters were in the buildings aides and scattered around the ground, and in them middle of it all was the one responsible. Furutaka, only she did not look exactly like she did the last time Akitsu Maru saw her. Her clothing had not changed in its design but was entirely deep black with silver accents. She was missing her articulated gun, and she had massive armoured gauntlets all the way up both of her arms, guns and cannons sticking forward out of both of them, their metal as dark as night with the telling fangs of abyssal cannons on them. What surprised Akitsu Maru the most, however, was that Furutakas eye that normally glowed vibrantly bright like the sun, was now glowing bright red like the eye of a demon, while her other eye was still bright golden. Looking over to where Akitsu Maru was and seeing her, Furutaka waved to her with a smile, her now pale skin looking even brighter in the sunlight and in comparison to her dark armour and clothing.

"Hey, glad you're alright Akitsu Maru. . . Where is Yamato?" Furutaka asked with a smile, her voice happier than she had heard it before.

"She . . . she had to get some other ship girls attention so I could keep heading towards the docks." Akitsu Maru admitted.

"Oh, well I've been hearing the sounds of large guns firing for a while from back in the base so I'm sure she's fine. What about you?"

"I'm fine, for now." Akitsu Maru said as she was suddenly reminded of Tatsuta's torture and shivered a bit.

"Well ,you don't look to good. Honestly, you don't look physically wounded but, well, you look hurt still." Furutaka said in a worried tone as she turned and looked around, spotting an abyssal fighter in the sky circling above them. "Ah, looks like one of Zuikaku's fighters have found us, it should cover you from above, just head straight that way to reach the docks. Zuikaku is just off shore providing support so meet up with her!" Furutaka added as she pointed down a roadway with a massively armoured arm.

"But what about you?" Akitsu Maru asked, notching the large scratch marks on Furutakas equipment, and the bruises and scrapes on her skin. She wasn't bleeding, but it looked like she had been in quite the fight.

"I'll be fine," Furutaka said stoically as she suddenly turned to a road adjacent to the one she pointed at, all of her guns aiming down it as if waiting for something to come. "Get going, I can hear more ship girls coming. I'll hold them here!"

"What? Are you sure?"

"Yes. Go down that street. It leads straight to the docks where you'll find Zuikaku. I'll be fine." Furutaka said with a smile as she began firing all of her cannons in order, absolutely destroying the road before her, and causing the ship girls just beyond to scream and shout in surprise.

Akitsu Maru nodded and did as Furutaka said, rushing away and down the road. As she ran she could hear the sounds of battle increase behind her, but more than anything, she heard the sounds of angry and annoyed ship girls, and the sound of metal striking metal. Was Furutaka punching them with her equipment covered arms?

Shaking her head to remove the worry from her mind Akitsu Maru ran down the street. If Furutaka said she'd be okay then she would, just like Yamato would. She had to get to the docks.

As if reality was working against her though, the fighter that was following her suddenly fell from the sky, crashing to the ground with a bang. Before Akitsu Maru could even think about what it meant, a chain of explosions rang out from ahead of her, right at the docks. She wasn't sure what it meant, but it did tell her what she needed to know. She was almost there.

Turning the last corner Akitsu Maru expected to find the docks either empty or covered in craters and broken equipment. But while it was covered in craters and equipment, it was far from empty. Standing around in a group on the docks was a Nagato, Mutsu, Atago, Hiei, and Kirishima. All of them were bruised and had damaged clothing and equipment, but what shocked and horrified Akitsu Maru was what she saw before them. Lying on the ground was Zuikaku. She looked like aircraft carrier water demon, but her hair color and clothing was inverted, black hair with white clothing and armour, though her hair was still the same style as it always was. She was lying on the docks with her face against the pavement, a broken black steel bow lying near her, and her skin was covered in cuts and bleeding gashes that showed through the gaping holes in her clothing.

Suddenly the Nagato stepped up to Zuikaku's side, and aimed all of her guns down at her head and body. She meant to fire on her at point black range, and with how badly hurt Zuikaku looked-.

"Zuikaku, get up!" Akitsu Maru called out, forgetting for a second that doing so would make her presence known.

"Zuikaku? Impossible!" Nagato exclaimed haughtily as she looked up from her and over to Akitsu Maru, all of her guns still aiming at Zuikaku as the other ship girls with her spread out and all glared at Akitsu Maru. "Get out of those shadows, we know you are there. Or did you want to watch your fellow monster be killed!"

"No, run!" Zuikaku moaned in pain as Akitsu Maru walked away from the corner and into the open, only stopping when she was a dozen feet from Nagato, and less than that from the others.

"Let me guess, you want us to free your friend here in exchange for your life. Right, traitor!?" Nagato asked Akitsu Maru angrily as she tapped the end of her foot against Zuikaku's head.

"No, just let us go and we'll be out of your hair." Akitsu Maru said quietly as emotions welled up within her, hate, disdain, anger. All of these emotions filled her but the one that she felt the most, was absolute disgust, disgust that someone could be so willing to strike someone already down in such an ugly fashion.

"Do you really think that is how it works?" Nagato asked with a laugh as she placed her foot on Zuikaku's head and began pushing down as a telling click from her equipment told all-around her that her guns were now loaded.

"Just let us go, you don't have to do this."

"Do what, execute the enemy and a traitor!?" Tatsuta said as she walked onto the docks, her halo cracked and her equipment and clothing heavily damaged. "It was quite lucky of you that that wall explode on me, but I'm here to collect on your life!"

Akitsu Maru felt angry at herself. Because she hadn't come faster Zuikaku was now in serious condition and worse than that, she had no equipment. Her equipment had never been meant for combat, but if she just had her equipment, she could do something. She could do something instead of having everything done for her!

Then it happened.

Like the sun burning its light out from below her feet a bright white and yellow ring of energy burst forth, scorching the ground around her as particles of light floated up. The particles quickly gathered around her and began forming a shape around her waist and behind her. And when the lights faded, their work was done. Floating behind Akitsu Maru was a runway scroll just like her own, and belted around her waist was equipment similar, but oddly new and different from her usual equipment. Instead of small tiny AA guns, the equipment on her waist had ten moderately sized guns that looked completely unlike a ships cannons.

Without warning the guns on her waist all aimed down at the ship girls before her, and let out sudden cracks as their shells careened through the air, striking each girl in the torso and knocking them backwards from the force. Those that immediately got up were then quickly pummelled by the bombs that numerous fighters dropped on them, all summoned by the scroll that floated weightlessly behind Akitsu Maru.

Leaving the ship girls to be held back by her planes, Akitsu Maru ran over and crouched down beside Zuikaku with worry in her eyes as she placed a hand on her shoulder, and took one of Zuikaku's with the other, "Are you okay Zuikaku?"

Zuikaku looked up at Akitsu Maru and smiled, her now brilliantly red eyes surrounded by tears from pain. "I've – I've been better, but I'll be fine. Where are Furutaka and Yamato?"

"I'm right here!" Furutaka called as she walked on to the dock, punching Nagato in the face as she tried to get up and attack her. A simple act that seemed to stop every ship girl from getting up again, letting Akitsu Maru's fighters finally just hover about.

"Ow, well where is Yamato then?" Zuikaku cringed as she slowly got up off the ground with Akitsu Maru's help.

"She, should be here soon I think, there's no way that she was beaten so-"

"Really, you think that, you monsters!" Tatsuta called as she clawed her way up off the ground and pointed her guns and glaive at them. "Even if she does make it here, all she'll find is your bodies and-"

"Shut up!" Yamato's voice called as her hand grabbed the side of Tatsuta's head and threw her sideways into the nearest wall with a crack that caused everyone nearby to cringe at it.

"Yamato!" Akitsu Maru called happily as she ran over to Yamato and leapt at her, hugging her with small tears in her eyes!

"Wow, you look in good shape! Furutaka said loudly as Yamato walked over with Akitsu Maru hanging off of her, letting go a moment later.

"Yeah, sorry for worrying you all. Let's leave this place already . . . . Are they all knocked out?" Yamato asked as she gestured toward the ship girls nearby, none of whom except Nagato were at even half damage.

"Yeah I think so. That or they're playing dead." Akitsu Maru said with a strange smile as the guns on her equipment jittered about.

"I see. Well let's get out of here. This base is in disarray, so we shouldn't have to much trouble leaving, especially with those planes of yours above us."

"Yeah, I agree let's leave!" Akitsu Maru said as both Zuikaku and Furutaka nodded in agreement as well.

As the four of them leapt off the docks and sped off across the waters toward the horizon, Tatsuta lifted her head from the ground, glaring at them. "Not, if I have any say about it!" she growled as she aimed her two guns at Akitsu Maru and fired. The shells travelled true, and by the time the sound reached their ears, the shells struck Akitsu Maru in the skull and back, knocking her forward onto the water's surface with a crack.