It'll Take More Than That To Put Me Down

by Nebula Descendant Of Chaos

They've had their fun, now it's my turn. Let's see if they got what it takes to stop something deemed unstoppable.

14. Chapter 13: Operation Blitzkrieg

So, I guess I could say that I didnt mean to not post something for the last two months or so but life has just been a massive bitch to me lately, plus, school has me on a tight schedule that I barely had any time to write. But, dont worry, I'm not planning on dropping this sotry, just that it might take longer for updates now that I'm preparing for my college entrance exams that I'll be taking next month or so, not that many ofyou would read this but, meh...

Anyway, enjoy this chapter because I'm planning on taking a few days off on writing and refueling my imagination for the next chapter while playing World of Warships (Nagato is quite squishy even when I'm angled).

Disclaimer: I don't own Kantai Collection, but the plot and anything else in between you guys aren't familiar are probably mine or about to be mine. Jk, hahaha. Maybe~ Maybe not~

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Chapter 13: Operation Blitzkrieg

December 10, 2020;
A.O.: Sarushima Island;
1st Fleet, Flagship: Bismarck;
Time: 17:47:59hrs;

"Drop off. ETA: Thirty seconds!" the pilot of the Boeing CH-47 Chinook said through the radio.

Outside, numerous amount of Hellstorm missile passed over the Chinook, heading straight for Sarushima Island for the missile bombardment phase Jason has ordered.

"What did he say?" New Jersey asked to Kirishima as the loud and strong steady beats of the chopper's twin-engines and rotors muffled much of the sound.

Looking at her temporary fleet-member, Kirishima sighs as she translates what the pilot has said, "He said, we will be dropping off in thirty seconds."

"Thanks!" New Jersey replies with a large grin and a thumb up while her sister, Wisconsin, smiled gratefully at Kirishima, albeit shyly.

Beside them, their flagship for this mission, Bismarck, surveyed her fleet, finding most of them having their faces glued to the windows watching in awe as the ten-meter Hellstorm missiles ejected the side plates revealing rows upon rows of smaller missiles. Seconds later, every last missile in their vicinity released their payloads which went straight for Sarushima Island, bombarding the island like theirs no tomorrow, lighting up the night sky bright orange as more missiles followed suit.

"S-sugoi!" Fubuki mumbled in amazement, "So this is how modern warfare is now fought…"

Across the Destroyer, Enterprise chuckled to herself, "It will never cease to amaze me just how much humanity has advanced in technology since our time…"

"Too right, m8!" New Jersey grinned, a hint of glee as the entire island was lit up like a Christmas, no doubt shocking all the Abyssals within it to death.

"Alright. Everyone, prepare to disembark!" Bismarck announced as the ramp started opening up, revealing the dark blue ocean water and the night sky that is filled with clouds and a shy moon hiding behind some randomly large clumps of clouds, giving them optimal cover as the bombardment continued.

"We will have to drop you girls here!" the pilot said as the side gunners surveyed the areas for any Abyssal activity with their Mk 19 grenade launchers, "We can't stay for too long! Good luck on your mission, girls, and may the Gods ever be in your favor! The F-35s should be ready by the time we return!"

"Arigatou, Pilot-san!" Kirishima nodded to the pilot as she relayed what he said to her foreign fleet members.

"That's good to hear." Bismarck said, waiting for the green light to appear and appear it did as she was the first one out followed close by the two Cruisers, "Let's go! To victory!"

Jumping off the ramp, she found herself dropping some thirty feet above the surface of a windy waters. After landing like a pro with a mighty splash, that felt natural and comforting, she immediately revved her boilers to get her propellers working. Behind her, Tenryuu and Maya dropped with a splash, their guns, fists and sword at the ready. They were followed by the four Destroyers who gave out involuntary shrieks of fear as they found themselves dropping quite high in the air, dropping on the water with more softer splashes than the first three, sea water spraying on all four of them as the wind picked up a bit. Seconds later, Katsuragi and Enterprise dropped behind the four Destroyers, bows at the ready for anything with the last three Battleships following right after.

Clearing her throat, Bismarck turned to her fleet just as the Chinook turned and left, more missiles dropping from the air to their intended target, "Our mission, Operation Blitzkrieg, is to storm Sarushima Island and retake it from the Abyssals that has made it their HQ. Observe radio-silence unless it is an emergency or ordered otherwise by the Admiral or I. Understood?"

"Hai/Roger!"

"Alright, let's move! Fan out, ten meters. Diamond Formation."

Nodding to herself in satisfaction, she turned to where the loud explosion is going on and darted off, her fleet following behind her in a diamond formation with her being in the forefront. Behind her, Enterprise, Kirishima, New Jersey, Katsuragi and Wisconsin sailed respectively with the four Destroyers sailing as Anti-Air screen with the two Cruisers sailing at the outer most layer of the formation between two Destroyers at the port and starboard side.

"Set to Cruising speed: 15 knots!" Bismarck called behind her as five-meter waves rocked them up and down.

Aiming an arrow of F4F-3 Wildcat Fighters at a forty-five-degree angle, Enterprise took a deep breath to steady her shot and fired away, watching as the arrow burst into flames and into a group of six fighters. Pulling another Fighter from her hangar, she sends that group of fighters to in the air. Now that she has two groups of Fighters in the air, she orders the first group to screen the formation while she orders the second to scout ahead for any enemy contacts lurking around as the loud explosions started slowing down. No doubt having already done their job exponentially well.

"What was that Fighter Squadrons for, Enterprise-san?" Kirishima asks her from behind, eyeing the planes, with narrowed eyes warily, that they had once fought against some eighty years ago.

"I had a squadron screen us while I had the other scout for us." Enterprise grins behind her as the familiar engine of her planes resonated around them, "Aren't they great?"

Being asked a question like that from out of nowhere, Kirishima doesn't know how to respond to it since, yes, it is quite inferior to their Type 0 Fighter Model 21 that Katsuragi was equipped by both the Admiral and Akashi for the mission, it can sure as hell put up a good fight. So, going for the safe route, she says, "Well… they're okay. I guess?"

"Meh. What works is always enough for certain situations, so I guess I can live with that." Enterprise shrugs carelessly.

"I… see…" Kirishima murmurs, looking behind her for a second, only to see Katsuragi about to do the same.

"Katsuragi, wait for a while." She says to the Carrier, "Wait until we have clear sight of the enemy, conserve your fighter's fuel for now."

"Aw!" the Japanese Carrier whines, "Why?! And I wanted to use the planes Teitoku has given me…"

Urging herself not to face-palm, because that would be rude, Kirishima scratches her chin and was about to say something if not for Enterprise suddenly beating her to it.

"Contact! Five klicks! Bearing 045!" Enterprise yelled with a hand to her ears.

"How many?!" Bismarck demanded as she started aiming her guns, loading HE for splash damage.

"Eight ships! Single Column. Speed: 10 knots-ish!" Enterprise relayed the message her pilots has sent to her, "Two Wo-class Carriers in the back, three Ni-class Destroyers and three Ho-class Light Cruisers!"

Grinning as adrenaline started pumping in her veins, Bismarck smirked as she readjusted her brown gloves, "I shall show you how Bismarck fights, vermin!"

Changing speed, Bismarck pointed to the left with her respective arm and said, "Flank speed. All guns, load HE, aim at bearing 045!"

Speeding up, the first fleet all aims their guns at the directed area, all loaded with HE with a click as Enterprise and Katsuragi starts putting as much planes they can in the air.

"Yes! ! ! Enemy fleet sighted! Launching strike aircraft!" Katsuragi enthusiastically says as she sent two squadrons into the air.

"That's the spirit!" Enterprise complimented, "Group 2, keep them on your sight but remember to keep your distance."

"Enterprise! Are there any Abyssals within the area, other than the ones you saw?" Bismarck asks the Carrier behind her as they crossed the 3.5 km mark with the enemy fleet has finally spotted the planes and are now firing their 5-inch Single Anti-Aircraft Gun Mount at them.

"Negative!" Enterprise says as she did her best to guide her planes through the enemy AA fire, "Fuck! They got one of mine!"

"You heard her. Battleships, open fire!" Their flagships commands as they reached the three-kilometer mark, "Come now, bring it on!"

With a thunderous thunderclap, thirty-four Battleship caliber HE shells was sent into the air in an instant, disappearing under the night within seconds just as they finally gained sight on the enemies that are currently fighting off wave after waves of planes that the two Carriers has sent. Travelling at speeds impossible to dodge, since they are currently being preoccupied by the swarm of planes, the small Abyssal fleet only had a split second to react when all thirty-four HE shells came into view, blessed by RNJesus for the dispersion. Said split second later, all eight Abyssal ships disappeared from sight after a massive cloud of orange fire engulfed all of them, leaving the Abyssal planes launched guideless and helpless for a few second which both Carriers took advantage of by strafing the hell out of them.

"Nine confirmed kills!" Katsuragi gleefully cried, "Recalling planes to refuel and rearm. Good job, everyone!"

'Group one, returning to ship!'

'Group two, returning!'

"Haha! Twelve confirmed kills!" Enterprise grins at Katsuragi who pouted at her, "Nice work, kid."

"Mou! You were stealing my kills, that's why!"

"Better luck next time." Enterprise said at the pouting Carrier, her planes circling the area where the shells have landed.

"Did we get them?" Wisconsin asks timidly behind Katsuragi.

"Yeah, did we get them, E?" New Jersey asks.

"Not all." Enterprise says, her eyes narrowing, "All the Destroyers has been sunk, but the Ho-class and the Wo-class are still standing."

"Then we'll just have to sink them!" Maya grins at the starboard side of the formation as she punched her left fist.

"Roger. Fleet, let's sail straight to them!" Bismarck orders as she changed course, closely followed by her comrades who did the same, "Finally, a fleet battle… I'm itching for a fight!"

On their flanks, the four Destroyers sails with dutifully, with full confidence on their fleet flagship and their fleet members. Staring at the smoke a kilometer and a half away, Fubuki – who stood at the starboard side with Yuudachi behind her – is reminded by the Second World War for a second before shaking it off her head. Seconds later, at the corner of her eyes, she spots something slowly emerge from her flanks which made her turn to it immediately as it finally revealed itself.

"Contact! Direct east of our position!" She cries out, aiming her guns at it, "Ka-class! Two of them!"

"Fleet! Hard to starboard, half speed!" Bismarck yells out as a spread of five torpedoes popped out of the water missing them barely by a few feet, "Destroyers, Cruisers, take care of them!"

"Go!" Fubuki cries as she fired two straddle shots at the enemy Subs.

"Let's party!" Yuudachi cries out gleefully as she picked up a pair of depth charge given to her by Akashi, "Eat this, poi~!"

"Yaa!" Akatsuki yells as she fired her guns, both HE shells straddling the Sub.

"Fire!" Mutsuki cries as the shell from her Single Gun Mount grazes the Abyssal Submarine on the cheeks, "I did it!"

Since both Ka-class are about fifteen meters away from each other, both where helpless when the two battle-hungry Cruisers came upon them, blood-thirsty grins slapped on their faces as they raised their respective fist and sword.

"Die!"

Tenryuu roars as she sliced with her sword, the blade going through the head of the Submarine, on the top left – her left – and down to the bottom right, like hot knife through butter. With a look of fear and surprise forever etched on the Ka-class' eyes, the top part of her head slowly slid off after a line appeared from where Tenryuu has hit, spraying said Cruiser on the boots with its black ichor before sinking back to the depths of the abyss, never to be seen again.

"Hell yeah!" Maya roars as well as she plunged her left fist square on the face of the Submarine, lifting the poor bastard of the water after the Ka-class' face caved in, instantly killing her because of her delicate Submarine built. The Ka-class landing back on the water unceremoniously before sinking slowly as it bled its black blood from its mangled face and horribly detached jaw.

Breathing hard, as the adrenaline slowly died down, both Cruisers turns to each other and fist-bumps before returning to the fleet. Moving back to their positions, the fleet continued its pursuit of the Abyssal fleet they had charred and are attempting to escape.

"I won't let you escape me…" Bismarck yells as familiar clicking resonated around them as all four Battleships has reloaded fresh rounds, "Don't underestimate me! Feuer!"

"Main guns, aim at the enemy!" Kirishima grins ferally as her guns snapped at the surviving Abyssals, specifically, the Wo-class, "Fire!

With a second thunderous thunderclap, sixteen 14" shells smashed to the heavily injured, charred and listing Abyssal ships head-on. The Wo-class on the right, with her bright yellow eyes, was the unluckiest of them all since all eight HE shells sent to her by Kirishima smashed into her being, reducing her to tiny tid-bits as each explosion ripped her from limb to limb. Meanwhile, the other Carrier and the three Cruisers received two shells from Bismarck each, blowing them to kingdom come.

"Now… did we get them?" New Jersey asks, her answer revealing itself to her as the smoke cleared, a gruesome view of Abyssals torn to pieces lying on top of the water, "Huh, I guess we did. Nice shot you two."

Beside her, Tenryuu let poor Akatsuki hold on to her hand since the Destroyer looked like she needed the support.

"It's gonna be alright, Akatsuki." She says to the small Destroyer, "We're all gonna get home victorious."

"H-hai!"

Coming to a stop, Bismarck turns to her fellow shipgirls with an air of seriousness, "This is only the first wave. We still have an island to take care of. If you have any injures, it's best you heal them now or if not, refuel and load AP. Cruisers, we'll leave smaller Abyssal ships to you along with the DDs. Ms. Enterprise, it be best to recall your fighters for now. Ms. Katsuragi, launch two air groups and have one screen while the other scout for us."

"Roger/Hai!"

Doing as they are told by their flagship, the girls make quick work of their tasks as they pulled out a green can, looking like a soda can with the shape of an oil drum. They all open their cans and drinks its content as they enjoyed this calm before the storm.

"I wonder how the other fleets are doing…" Wisconsin mutters.

"It would probably best if we keep positive thoughts for our comrades who are currently doing their mission." Bismarck states as she crushed the empty can on her hand before putting it back from where she got it from.

"… you're right, Ms. Bismarck." Wisconsin smiles at the German Fast Battleship, "We should."

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December 10, 2020;
A.O.: Tokyo Bay;
2nd Fleet, Flagship: Tirpitz;
Time: 19:58:27hrs;

"Who-whoa!" Fletcher gushed as she watched the Hellstorm missiles outside the Chinook release its -payload before going straight down to their targets, "T-that's so cool! Iowa! Iowa! Look! Look!"

Chuckling at the young excitable Destroyer, Iowa slowly made her way to her as the Chinook shook here and there for a bit, her rigging left in front of where she was sitting a few moments ago, "Yeah, Fletcher? What is it?"

Pointing at the window eagerly, Fletcher bounced on her sit beside Hibiki, who merely stared outside with a small hint of her own childish wonder as she watched at the destructive spectacle known as missiles. On the sits, next to the cool-as-cucumber-comrade Hibiki, sat both Yamakaze and Shigure, both staring outside as well with the former wincing at every muffled explosion while the latter tried to see how far up they are in the air.

"Look! Look!" Fletcher chirped, "Those things are so cool! I want one!"

Giggling at the small DD, Iowa leaned down next to her and stared out the window as well, watching as missiles upon missiles darted pass them, "Yeah, they're cool alright, but I don't think the Admiral would let you have one of those."

"Aw?! Why not?" Fletcher moaned mournfully.

Grinning at the small girl, Iowa kneeled in front of her as she held the little girl's hands and said, "Well, for one, we would need the tech to make them small enough to fit you or, if you really want to be able to use one of them, the Admiral has told us big ships that we can all paint targets for them to hit, but it has to have a minimum of twenty meters of diameter for a full-on effect and that we have to be at least fifty meters away or more."

"I guess…" Fletcher sighs unsure, "I guess that's better than not having being able to use it at all."

"That's a good girl." Iowa says as she ruffled the girl's hair, "Now sit tight, we're almost there."

"Okay!"

Walking back to her sit, both Kongou and Tirpitz – whom are sitting across each other – turns at Iowa and grins at her knowingly, "That's quite mature of you." Tirpitz remarks with arms crossed under her bountiful breast, her legs crossed as well like a proper lady.

"Why thank you, Jerry." Iowa smirks at the German as she sat down, "What about you, Bongou, got anything to add as well?"

Feeling a twitch at her left eyebrow, Kongou does her best not to show her annoyance at the nickname the bloody American has bestowed upon her. For one, it won't solve anything and the other, she doesn't want her Teitoku to be mad at her for such an unsightly behavior. So, going for next best thing, Kongou smiles sweetly at Iowa as her sister, Haruna, sat peacefully beside her. Across her sister, sat Prinz Eugen and Graf Zeppelin, quietly watching the ordeal.

"None at all, Iowa-san." Kongou stresses the prefix, "I don't have anything to add, besides, I still haven't forgotten what you did with Teitoku a few days back!"

Giving the desu-boat a confused stare, it took Iowa a few seconds to finally get what she meant after she has sat back on the chair, a look of realization coming upon her before her cheeks burned slightly which she covered with a grin.

"O-Oh that?" she asked with an up-beat tone, "Well, if you're still angry about that, I can tell you everything in detail…"

"No!" Kongou vehemently refused, "I will not have you spoil something so precious! Mark my words, no one and I mean no one, can stand between my Burning Love for Teitoku! Desu!"

Laughing at the Admiral's desu-boat, Iowa placated her to calm down, "Chill, chill. I mean no harm. But if that's how you see it, then, by all means, break a leg."

"Haruna is alright with this." Haruna smiled angelically and innocently, almost blinding everyone with her sweetness.

"I pray for the Admiral's health that he survives this ordeal." Graf says as she held her 10.5cm Twin Gun Mount.

"He'll be okay!" Pudding- er, Prinz Eugen giggled at her friend, "He's our Admiral after all. He has to make it, one way or the other."

Smiling back at her Cruiser friend, Graf replies, "I hope you're right about that, Frau Prinz Eugen."

"Tee~he~he!"

Seconds later after, the Chinook suddenly shook violently, arousing a shriek of shock and fear from the girls who was flying for the first time while the more experienced ones merely held strong on their sits. Standing back up, Kongou makes her way to the cockpit and turns to the pilot as she felt the Chinook start descending.

"What's happening?!" she asked as the air started being filled with flak fire while more Hellstorm missiles wreaked havoc within the Abyssal ranks below them.

"We're taking flak. We'll have to start descending now!" the co-pilot told her as he pressed some buttons on top of him, "If we stay any longer in the air, the Abyssals below us in the water will shoot us down! Ready up. Thirty-five seconds!"

Nodding her thanks for the pilots, Kongou turns around and relays the co-pilots word in English, before looking straight to Tirpitz's eyes, "Let's go!"

Nodding to Kongou, Tirpitz stands up along with the rest of the shipgirls as they started arming themselves. Making her way to the ramp through the shipgirls that are putting on their armaments, Tirpitz watched as it started lowering itself, the water racing below them as the Chinook shook again.

"Twenty seconds before drop!" the pilot called which Kongou immediately translated for them.

"Ja! Everyone." Tirpitz calls to her fleet members, "Our objective at the moment is simple. Clear any Abyssal presence within the area and take anything worth taking. Remember to observe radio-silence until ordered otherwise. Any questions?"

Raising her hands, Iowa grins at the German fast Battleship, "Yes, Iowa, what is it?"

"When are we going to get started?" Iowa asks with a very American grin.

Listening to her question, Tirpitz turns to Kongou next to Iowa, who nodded at her as the pilot gave them the go-signal.

"Now."

Turning around, she then jumps off the Chinook, landing on top of the water five meters below followed closely by Prinz and Tatsuta. Seconds later, Graf and Hornet dropped behind the two Cruisers followed by the four Destroyers, two of which were not very pleased with the height of their jump while Fletcher and Hibiki landed on their knees like a pair of badasses. After that, the last three Battleships landed on the water just as the Chinook turned hard to port, flying back to its base.

"Frau Graf, Ms. Hornet. Send two squadrons up and have one screen for us while the rest scouts ahead." Tirpitz ordered.

The two Carriers nodded as they immediately got to work, sending to squads in the air as fast as they can. Seconds later, multiple plane engines surrounded the shipgirls' area as both squadron of Hornet and one of Graf's went ahead while the one remaining gave screen. And with five planes screening them, Tirpitz gave the go-signal.

"Let's move!" she commands, "Fan out. Triple Column. Ten meters!"

Without any hesitation, since there is no room for one, the shipgirls move to form the three columns with Tirpitz sailing in front. Behind her, was Graf Zeppelin, Hornet and Iowa respectively, all alert while at the port, Kongou stands with Tatsuta, Fletcher and Hibiki sailing behind her, guns at the ready. Meanwhile, at the starboard, Haruna did the same with Prinz Eugen, Yamakaze and Shigure behind them.

"Flank speed!" Orders Tirpitz, "We've been dropped a bit far from our A.O., so we will have to make haste before the bombardment ends!"

Cranking up their boilers to maximum power, all the shipgirls sailed at the speed of thirty knots, the girls slices through the waves before both Carriers scouts picked up something.

"Hostiles spotted!" Graf cries, "Four klicks due north! They all seem to be disoriented and in disarray!"

"Copy your last, Frau Graf!" Tirpitz replied, "Ms. Hornet, anything else you wish to add?"

"Uh, they seem to be close to this museum ship of sorts, I think the Mikasa. They're not moving close to it for some reason, but they are about approximately half a klick from it. Also, the bombardment has also shaken them up enough. At the speed we're going, we'll catch them off guard for sure!" Hornet replied, "Anything else?"

"Have your planes fly into the clouds and prepare for a strafing run-" but she stops as she heard a faint sound coming from up-top, "What is that? Does any of you hear that?"

"Hear what?" Kongou asks, confused.

"Haruna does not hear anything, I'm sorry." Haruna apologizes with a small bow.

Raising an eyebrow, Tirpitz was about to ask them how they're not hearing what she's hearing until Iowa screamed on the top of her lungs.

"ENEMY PLANES INCOMING! ! !"

And just like that, Tirpitz snapped her head up and a flashback of herself when she was still being hunted by the British flash before her eyes, freezing her in spot with eyes as wide as saucers from fear. A creeping feeling of fear started to crawl upon her as the Abyssal planes made themselves known, firing their small guns at the shipgirls who returned with AA fire that littered the night sky. Meanwhile, Tirpitz was still sailing in her spot, her mind having shut itself down as the memories of her slow and painful sinking came back, full force.

"Tirpitz! What do we do?!" Graf Zeppelin yelled as they kept moving at constant speed, "Tirpitz? Tirpitz!"

Seeing her Battleship friend frozen in fear, Graf gritted her teeth in frustration, "Verdammt zur Hölle! Now is not the time to be like this, Frau Tirpitz!"

Lifting her 10.5cm Twin Gun Mount with only her right hand, Graf sends effective fire towards the Abyssal Fighters while she summons a fairy to her clenched free-hand. Opening her hand, she sees an engineer fairy waving its chubby hands to her adorably, but now is not the time to be distracted by the sheer cuteness of her fairy. Having given the fairy a warning of what she's about to do mentally, Graf softly clenches her hand as the battle raged on and threw as hard as she can, aiming for Tirpitz's head. Her fairy letting out a long 'Ja' as she flew and landed directly on Tirpitz's left ear. Pulling out a blowhorn of some sorts, the fairy took a cute long ass breath and blew. Blew so hard that all the shipgirls heard it, more so Tirpitz who was the intended target.

Snapping back to action after almost having her eardrums blown to hell, Tirpitz turned her head in shock and looked left right as a bomb nearly nailed Kongou in one of her guns. Shaking her head, Tirpitz turned to the fairy that stood on her shoulder and felt her eyes watering up. Wiping the tears away, Tirpitz was just about to thank the fairy engineer, if not for her pointing behind her. Turning her head around as best as she can, she saw Graf tip her hat at her while shooting down planes that got too close for comfort, her clothes already dirtied by soot.

"Danke… Graf!" Tirpitz wipes another batch of fresh hot tears, before growling in pure anger as the fairy went back to her Carrier, the AA guns of the Fast Battleship clicking with vengeance before they all snapped to the sky which was still littered by Abyssal Fighters that are currently engaging the screen, "Sterben Sie Bastarde! ! ! I will not fail a second time!"

And with the wrath of some fine German engineering, coupled with an American and Japanese AA fire, the sky was cleared within seconds of any Abyssal planes, as rounds of varying calibers was sent skyward, ripping wings, frames and tails off like hot knife through butter, none was spared and none was left flying a second later.

Breathing hard from the rage she felt within her, Tirpitz signals her fleet to stop, their speed dying down within a minute and a half before they all came to a halt. Turning to her fleet with shame-filled stare, having no will to look at her comrades in the eyes, she was about to apologize when Iowa suddenly wrapped her right arm at her as if they were the best of friends.

"That was some nice shooting, Tirpz!" Iowa laughed, her massive jugs of awesomeness jiggling from the slightest movements, "Ten out of ten, would see again!"

"Eh?"

"Hai, it was daijobou." Haruna smiled with her hands clasped like in a prayer.

"Yes~! One of the best I have ever seen!" Kongou cheers.

"B-but-"

Sailing slowly next to her friend, Graf puts a hand on Tirpitz's left shoulder and gave it a comforting squeeze, "Don't worry about it. Don't think, feel. Isn't that what you said to me when we first met?"

Seeing the smile, the Carrier was giving her, Tirpitz slowly wipes her eyes for any tears she has not taken away for the last time and gave the Carrier a determined smile, one that spoke of her reassured will.

"Ja, I thank you all, Frau Graf, everyone." She says to all of them.

"You shouldn't be thanking us." Hornet grinned, "You should thank that fairy that blew that battle horn. I swear, it was one of the sweetest sounds I've heard in a while that I felt my fairies felt my adrenaline flowing!"

Summoning the fairy once again, Graf holds the fairy to eye-level with Tirpitz, the latter thanking the embarrassed fairy profusely. The four DDs and the two Cruisers watching the Battleship rub the poor fairy in her cheeks with so much affection that they felt that the fairy might actually not enjoy it.

BEEP! ! !

A loud beeping sound rang from Prinz Eugen's Radar which she immediately placed her attention, "Contact! Tirpitz-onee-sama! It's the enemy fleet! They're heading this way!"

Handing the fairy back to Graf, not without a farewell rub on the cheek, Tirpitz turned to her fleet members with fire in her eyes as her 15" guns clicked with rage.

"2nd fleet! Our main objective is to drive the Abyssal forces out of the area. Now, with the attack against us mere moments ago, I felt the need to add a secondary objective. Just for now." Tirpitz barked.

"What's the secondary objective, Ms. Tirpitz?" Fletcher asked.

"Obliterate the enemy and leave nothing behind! The Admiral has entrusted us with this area." she answered, "We are what separates humanity from the darkness, the enemy is ruthless. We cannot, we must not fail."

"Hai!" the Japanese shipgirls replied with fire in their eyes, well, Yamakaze had a budding fire but fire nonetheless while Tatsuta looked very menacingly gleeful.

"Ufufufu~."

"Well then, point us where you want us to shoot then." Iowa grinned with her American friends.

Turning to Graf and Prinz, she nodded at them before she turned around, her speed increasing again as they set out to sortie.

"Then, let's go and bring the Admiral the good news!"

With a chorused reply, the shipgirls of the 2nd fleet sailed towards the enemy, carrying all the wrath of humanity with them. Determination burning brightly in their eyes as the scanned the area as they moved in full alert. Turning her head behind her for a bit, Tirpitz eyed all her fleet-mates with pride which then morphed into a look of dedication.

"We will be victorious."

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December 10, 2020;
A.O.: Futtsu;
3rd Fleet, Flagship: Missouri;
Time: 19:59:29hrs;

"Hang on!" the pilot cried from the cockpit as flak rounds bounced off from the Chinook's sides, "This is gonna be a bumpy ride!"

Baking to the left, the Chinook was barely able to avoid a direct hit from a flak cannon before turning nose-down to the right as more flak cannons littered the air. On top of them, the Hellstorm missiles screeched its wrath as it released its payload which immediately locked on and raced towards their targets. Inside the Chinook, the shipgirls of the 3rd fleet did their best to hold on as the pilot and the co-pilot punched buttons, pulled levers and screamed at each other, narrowly avoiding being turned to a burning wreck. The two poor side gunners were not able to do anything useful other than hold for their dear lives as the crazy co-pilot and the even crazier pilot flew them to the A.O.

"Open the ramp!" Hiei yelled at the pilots as she and her fleet-mates held on for dear life, "We're getting off here!"

"Don't worry!" the pilot replied back as he swerved the Chinook to the left, "We'll get you girls in your A.O as planned! Just hang on a little bit longer!"

Gritting her teeth, Missouri did her best not to be thrown around as she held on. Turning to her fellow Fast Battleship, she yelled, "What did he say?!"

Turning to her with the use of some effort, Hiei replied back, "He said he will get us on the A.O as planned!"

"But that's suicide!" Missouri cried.

"I know!"

Feeling the Chinook shook violently, Missouri was reminded of when they were on an AC-130 when it crashed landed after being shot down by the Abyssals. A reminder she and everyone that was with her does not want being reminded of. Turning to the other Battleships of their fleet, Missouri found the two to be holding on their sits with their free hands holding their katanas firmly.

Wracking her brain as they closed in to their A.O., Missouri stood up, putting her weight on the balls of her feet. Going to her rigging, she started equipping it as her fleet watched her for a few seconds, following suit as the Chinook shook once more. Back in the cockpit, the pilot informed Hiei that they are now just a hundred meters from their A.O.

"Fifteen seconds before drop-off!" Hiei announced as she too started putting her rigging on with haste, making sure everything is in proper order.

"You heard her! Get moving, everyone!" Missouri added, walking to the end of the ramp as the red light turned to life, "Make sure not to forget anything with you, this is a one-way trip. The Chinook won't be coming back to return anything you lose!"

"HAI!"

The shipgirls quickly equips their riggings as fast as their bodies will let them as seconds ticked by. Watching them do their thing, Missouri muses that when she was a still a massive steel ship, all of them were her worst enemies, now, they're her best bet of accomplishing this mission. And maybe, possible friends in the future…

Shaking her head, the red light beside her head turned green, signaling them that the time to jump is now. Looking right back at her fleet, Missouri watched them as they all stood in a line, waiting for her command, even if Kaga looked like she didn't want to be in here either because of Missouri – since she's an American – or Zuikaku – a 5th Division Carrier – but she kept her mouth shut and focused on her mission.

"You know our mission." Missouri yelled to them as the explosions below them and the Chinook's rotors almost drowned her voice, "Eradicate the Abyssal presence in our A.O. – you'll had to forgive me, I can't pronounce the name of the place without gutting it like a fish – and take anything worth of taking. Also, observe radio silence until the Admiral orders us otherwise."

"Hai!"

Raising her hand, Sendai bounced in glee as she held her torp-kunai excitedly, "Ms. Missouri!"

"Yes… uh, S-Sendai, was it?"

"How much lethal force are we allowed to use?" the cruiser asked, bouncing in place with an excited look on her face even when the plane shook again.

Thinking about such a question, Missouri gave her a confident grin, "Use as much as you'd like! So, go nuts, I guess!"

"Yatta!"

Turning around, Missouri jumps, followed by Hiei, finding both themselves to be falling at least forty-ish feet, forcing both of them to hold down their skirts as they landed on the water with a splash. Seconds later, Kaga and Zuikaku dropped in as well, fighter squadrons notched on their bows before being followed by Mogami and Sendai. A few more moments later, Asakaze, Harukaze, Ikazuchi and Inazuma followed with Ise and Hyuuga behind them.

"Everyone!" Missouri bellowed, reminding them once again, "Our mission is simple. Get in, destroy all Abyssal that moves then get out! Understood?"

"HAI!"

Revving her boilers, Missouri shot forward in a burst of speed followed closely by Hiei and the rest, the two dreadnoughts sailing in the back since they do not have enough speed to keep up. Knowing this, Missouri was forced to slow down, signaling the ones behind her to do so that they don't hit each other and consume too much fuel.

"Cruising speed: 18 knots!" Missouri ordered, opting to go not too fast or too slow, "Single column. Five meters!"

Behind her, the shipgirls immediately set to 18 knots of speed while the roughed-up Chinook took its leave, the co-pilot having opened his window and waving at them in good will.

"Good luck!"

Moving at the ordered speed and formation, the shipgirls make haste as they set their radars to max. Missouri, Hiei, Mogami, Inazuma, Ikazuchi, Kaga, Zuikaku, Sendai, Ise and Hyuuga sails in a perfect line respectively as the missile bombardment continued for a few more seconds, having bombed at least a good portion of their target area. Holding out her right arm, she signals the two standard Carriers to put a squadron in the air each, which the two didn't hesitate on doing as the night sky is then filled with the sound of ten plane engines that didn't waste time and gave them a dual-layered screen.

Five minutes later, Missouri's far-reaching radar beeps a few times as she picked up multiple unknown signatures. On top of them, the planes report the same, albeit a few minutes later but reports nonetheless. Cranking up her brain, Missouri does not give any signal to break formation as they steamed towards the unknown signature that most of them has pinged as the Abyssals for sure.

"Load HE!" she commands as the distance between them and the signatures got closer, "Destroyers! The two in the front, set your torpedoes at bearing 045 and 050! The ones on the back, at bearing 065 and 070!"

Doing as they're told, Inazuma sets a salvo of 91cm torpedoes to 045 while her sister, Ikazuchi, sets hers at 050 while Asakaze and Harukaze sets theirs at 065 and 070 respectively.

"Battleships!" Missouri calls as she finally paints the signatures as Abyssals when one of the fighter planes confirmed her question, "Enemy signatures, bearing 047 and 068!"

"That's two different locations!" Hiei gasps behind her.

"Yes. That's why, Ms. Hiei, you're with me." Missouri says, "We will take care of the ones at north-east. You two in the back, take care of the ones at north-west."

"Hai!" Ise nods as she pulled her sword off its scabbard.

"Hn."

"So, what's the plan?" Hiei asks as they kept their course.

Keeping her eyes narrowed in front of her, Missouri replies back, "After I have the Destroyer girls launch their salvoes, we will have to break formation leaving the Cruisers and the Destroyers to cover the Carriers while we open fire at the Abyssals."

"I see." Hiei nods, "Then, I will fight with all my might!"

"You better," Missouri grins as she looked at Hiei with a confident smirk, "'cuz I might forget to leave some for you~."

"Heh~." Hiei smirks back with fire in her eyes, "We shall see, American. We shall see."

Grinning at each other one last time, Missouri turns her head in front of her just as they passed a mild-wave, immediately spotting the two fleets of Abyssals. On their north-east, there were six Abyssals while on their north-west, they faced a fleet of seven confirming the info Hiei heard earlier in the day when she and everyone there with her where able to sneak a peek through Abyssal communications.

"So, this is the thirteen we've heard, eh?" Hiei grins as she sets her guns, tracking the pact of the Type-I class Abyssal Destroyers, Chi-class Cruisers and a pair of Ru-class battleships.

"Eh? What do you mean?" Missouri asks as she too sets her guns at her targets.

"Earlier today, while we were in Teitoku's office, we intercepted Abyssal comms and found out pretty much all the things we need." Hiei replied as they crossed the one-and-a-half-kilometer mark.

"Really?" Missouri grins, "Then this should be a piece of cake then."

"It should be, but let's not get overconfident here." Hiei says, "We are still in the middle of a mission, one wrong move and it could be our last."

"Roger your last, Ms. Hiei." Missouri nods with a smile, "Destroyers! Prepare to launch your torpedoes. On my mark!"

Crossing the kilometer mark, Missouri raises her right hand as the Abyssals on both sides fired at them, shells flying towards them, yet missing them entirely and the ones that makes it to them hits the sides of the Battleships' guns and ricochets harmlessly or shatters all together since it's a smaller caliber.

"Mark!"

After having crossed the eight-hundred-meter mark, Missouri slams her hand down as all the Destroyers launched their torpedoes in the water, watching them race on top of it towards the unsuspecting Abyssals.

"Break off!" Missouri orders immediately, "Fan-out! Five meters, double columns!"

With her command, all the shipgirls that are aiming at the north-west, sailed to the left while the latter sailed to the right. With Mogami in lead, she, Kaga, Asakaze, Harukaze, Ise and Hyuuga locks on their targets: a pair of Ni-class Destroyers, a trio of Ho-class Cruisers and two Wo-class Carriers.

"Fire!"

With a mighty thunderclap, all shipgirls fire their guns – well, the ones that are not a Carrier that is – and sent a multitude of shells into the air just as Abyssal planes appeared from the clouds. Their shells landing close to both the Abyssal lines, scoring nothing but misses and a single overpenetration that saved a Type-I's life, well not really, but it didn't kill it in an instant.

"Planes!" Mogami yelled as two five-inch shells landed beside her, straddling her, "Kyaah! That's close!"

"Evasive maneuver!" Hiei yelled.

Nodding at her words, both columns turned their rudders to each other and zigzagged, passing cleanly through each other while maximizing their AA-guns that lit the air. The Abyssal Dive Bombers where helpless as AA-guns from everyone created a solid wall of lead in the air, forcing them to drop their payload too early, something their Carriers raged on about. Going for their second zigzag, one of the Ru-class Battleship fires all her salvoes straight at the middle of the formation, directly where Hiei and Mogami are going to pass each other.

"Mogami-san, look out!" Hiei screams in frantic.

"Eh?!" Mogami only had a second before the Fast Battleship unintentionally rammed herself to her, saving Mogami from a single 16" AP shell that would have been fatal to her Cruiser body, if not for Hiei sacrificing her No. 4 gun turret which was blown wide open.

"Hyaah!" Hiei screams in pain as shrapnels and fire burned her clothes, the heat passing through them painfully, "M-my No. 4 turret!"

"Hiei-san!" Mogami croaks as the Fast Battleship held her tightly, "A… are you okay?!"

"H-hai." Hiei grins in pain, which unintentionally came out as a grimace instead before turning into an angry sneer, "But those bastards won't be in a second!"

"Ms. Hiei!" Missouri calls out in worry, her guns clicking as they loaded fresh shells, "Can you fight?"

Releasing the shell-shocked Cruiser slowly, Hiei grins at Missouri as she dusted her right arm from the soot and small fires that stained her detached sleeve, "This is just a scratch. Nothing I can't take! Mogami-san, c'mon!"

"H-h-hai!"

Aiming all her guns at the Ru-class Battleships, Hiei and Missouri glares menacingly at the Abyssals as their fellow shipgirls made a semi-circular formation with a three-meter gap from each other, with the two Carriers inside the semi-circle, the two Fast-Battleships in front of them, the two Cruisers at each end with two destroyers behind them each and the last two Battleships behind the two Carriers.

"Everyone!" Missouri called with a strong voice filled with confidence and determination, befitting of a leader, "This is where we fight! This is where we hold them! And this is where they die!"

"Man these guns, girls!" Hiei bellowed, her fairies doing their best to fix the ruined gun-port as fast as possible.

"HAI!"

Locking their guns at their targets that are still steaming to them, the shipgirls takes a defensive stance as their hearts thumped hard under chest, adrenaline flowing like a fire hose within them like there's no tomorrow.

"Give them nothing, but take from them everything!" Missouri roars as she glared at Abyssals whom stopped just five hundred meters in front of them.

"Shipgirls!" the Wo-class called out to them, "Lay down your weapons!"

The two sides stared at each other as tension rose. The four Destroyers looked at their Battleship comrades, unsure of what they will say, but chose to trust them to make the right decision.

Back on the Abyssals, the Wo-class was just about to run out of patience when she heard a whistling sound coming for her. Snapping her head in the sky as her eyes widened in shock, she merely had a split second to gape as a thousand pounds AP bomb dropped by one of Kaga's Dive Bombers blew a hole right through her chest, blowing chunks of flesh behind her and killing her instantly as the bomb pretty much gutted her chest wide open as if a cannon ball has gone through her, exposing her charred insides and shattered pieces of what was once her ribs and spinal cord. Gasping for precious oxygen as her mutilated left lung failed her, the Wo-class fell backwards on the water, her face forever sporting a look of fear and shock as she sunk, dead.

"Abyssals!" Missouri called back, with Hiei next to her praising Kaga for a bullseye and making the playing field even, and said, "Come and get them!"

"Yeah!"

With their flagship dead, the next flagship, which turned out to be the other Wo-class Carrier behind the one that was just killed, ordered all ships to charge as her eyes were blinded with burning hot rage.

"Kill them all!"

And with that said, both Mogami and Sendai moved back while Ise and Hyuuga took their place. Beside them, the Destroyers readied their other torpedo salvo as the Abyssals charged at them with menacing screams, yet, the devastating strike and first blood has secured their confidence to their comrades and will not be easily shaken by something like that.

"Hold!" Missouri said firmly.

Four hundred meters…

"Hold!"

Three hundred and twenty meters…

"Hold!"

Two hundred and forty-five meters…

"Hold!"

One hundred and thirty meters…

"Hold- ack!"

After passing the hundred-meter mark, the Abyssals suddenly opened fire at them, peppering the Battleships with multiple five-inch shells that did nothing other than annoy them as it is pretty much comparable to being hit by a really hard bb gun while occasional 16" ricocheted from their gun armors or missed them entirely.

"Itai!" Sendai yells out as a five-inch shell clipped her in the side of her right arm. Gritting her teeth in anger, Sendai suddenly sees red as she suddenly fired a shell at the lagging Type-I destroyer that was hit earlier, killing it without remorse as she sent a shell at its eye, blowing its inside out, "DIE!"

Just as the shipgirls that the pain of being pelted would never end, it suddenly stopped all of a sudden, indicating that the Abyssals now need to reload as they kept moving to them.

"NOW! ! !" Missouri bellowed with the force of a lion as her lab gown flapped behind her.

"IKE!" Hiei yelled as all battleships fired their guns, "No prisoners!"

"No mercy!" Missouri yelled as the Destroyers launched the next salvo that raced before them.

"HAI! ! !"

The torpedoes in the water moved gracefully at the speeds of 61 knots, giving the Abyssals, which happened to be all the Destroyers, an explosive greeting as all that were in the front were obliterated, creating water geysers everywhere.

Charging forward, all four Battleship didn't waste time as they moved in for the kill. Their fleet-mates supporting them from behind with Sendai charging forward as well.

Getting in close, Ise closed her eyes for a second as she sailed straight for one of the Ho-class Cruiser, remembering her fight with Jason earlier the day as she held her sword, preparing to pull out of its sheathe. Snapping her eyes open, she glares murderously at the Ho-class Cruiser, something her sister felt out of place, and pulled her sword. With a single flash of steel, Ise sheathes her sword back as she came to a stop behind the enemy Cruiser who remained stuck in place, before exploding after Ise clicked her sword in a close.

"Teitoku is an opponent far worthy of crossing blades with than you will ever be." She mutters heavily as she slowly exhaled, "Vermin."

Behind her, Hyuuga charges at the other Ho-class Cruiser, the enemy being none the wiser as it tried to shake away the ringing from its head after being blasted by numerous shells that dented and bruised its body all over. Narrowing her eyes, Hyuuga immediately pulls her katana out as her enemy slowly came to back to its senses. The moment it came to be, it was far too late as Hyuuga already had her sword in a swing, her sword landing on top of the Cruiser's hardened armored top with a mighty crash. The Cruiser's armored top not having enough strength to take on a Battleship's strength head on and cracked, before the sword destroyed whatever resistance there is and cleaved the Ho-class right down in half, vertically. Black ichor squirted and sprayed everywhere, staining Hyuuga on the face and her clothes as the Ho-class fell on two separate halves, sinking to the bottom of the sea. She kept her eyes at the corpse as it sank, a bit of disappointment somewhere within her because it ended too quickly.

"Hn." She flicked her sword, removing the black ichor, "Not what I expected."

"Here I come with all my might!" Hiei cried as she passed Hyuuga, her fists clenched and a determined smile on her face.

"… Sink! …" the Ru-class Battleship roared as she aimed all her guns at the speeding Fast Battleship.

"Make me!" Hiei challenged as she sailed left and right, keeping her guns and herself angled.

"… Die! …" Ru-class yelled as she opened fire, a full salvo of 16" AP shells, at Hiei.

Narrowing her eyes, Hiei grunted as she banked hard to port, the 16" AP shells missing her entirely as it ate water, splashing her with water on the side. Aiming her guns, Hiei locked all her secondaries at the Ru-class as her fairies emerged from her shoulders with Type-99 Arisaka rifles, peppering the enemy Battleship as Hiei waited for her guns to reload.

"Argh!"

"Good job, guys!" Hiei complimented with a grin.

"Yosh!" her fairies replied with gusto in a language only shipgirls and fairies alike can understand.

Through the cracking of rapid small arms fire by her fairies and her secondaries, it was almost impossible for anyone to hear the clicking of all eight 14" guns, but not for Hiei who grinned as she bent her body and knees forward as she took a firm stance, making herself as small a target as she can.

"All main guns," Hiei grinned as her fire directors calculated everything they need to calculate between her and the Ru-class, "FIRE! ! !"

Not a second later, Hiei sent eight 14" AP shells towards the Ru-class Battleship at almost point-blank range. And unlike other ships that is unfortunate enough to get hit by Battleship shells, the Ru-class screamed in agony as four of the eight 14" AP shells landed on her starboard gun turrets head on, obliterating the upper half of it while the rest landed across her body and only a single one missing her as it flew next by her neck. Unfortunately, the last Wo-class Carrier happened to be behind her causing her to eat a 14" AP shell right in the guts, easily penetrating due to her delicate Carrier armor not meant to be taking Battleship shells or any at all as the shell blew a good chunk off her left side.

"HYAAH!" the Wo-class screamed as she fell to her side, clutching her wound and mentally asking herself how she's not in two separate pieces yet after that.

Slowly raising her head in agony, the Wo-class can only watch in mute horror as Hiei finished the Ru-class in front of her with a hard punch to the jaw, breaking her neck like a twig as Hiei's secondaries spammed Hight Explosive shells like there's no tomorrow.

"Hieihhh! ! !"

Watching her comrade sink as the flames burned her body, she merely had a moment to contemplate what awaits her when an ominous feeling engulfed her entire being from behind. Freezing her in unfathomable fear as her heart suddenly picked up speed and her blood run cold. Mechanically turning her head around, her eyes widened in fear as she stared at the maliciously gleeful grin directed at her.

"Good night~." Sendai grinned gleefully, just before jamming her 91cm torpedo like a kunai at the top of the Wo-class' head, "And good bye~. Tee-hee~!"

The Wo-class Carrier shuddered once before her eyes rolled up on her eyelids. Falling down on her side for the last time, the last thing the Abyssal Carrier saw was her entire air group getting massacred in the sky before her head exploded after the torpedo ran its fuse.

"Good kill, Ms. Sendai!" Missouri complimented, ducking from a wild punch from the Ru-class before sending one of hers that connects successfully on her enemy's chin, "Good kill!"

"Thanks!"

Breathing slowly, Missouri scanned her opponent as she stumbled back from the blow she had just gave. Looking for any weaker spots she can take advantage of as her guns reloaded, Missouri burst forward, gunning her boilers at max speed, reaching her opponent in no time. Grabbing the stunned Ru-class' left arm with her right, Missouri sends her left fist towards the Abyssal Battleship's right chin, drawing blood and a tooth from the force of her punch before following it up with a blow in the gut with her right, blowing the wind right out of the Battleship's lungs and another by an upper-cut, lifting her enemy half a foot in the air as blood, spit and another tooth flew as well. Grunting, she roars as she used her left fist once more like a boxer going for the kill and punched the Ru-class as hard as she can right on the chest, shattering her ribs as she was sent rag dolling five meters away from Missouri, smashing through the high waves which was bad news for her guns.

"Missouri-san, let us wrap up!" Hiei called out to her from behind as they scanned for any more Abyssals around.

"Yes." Missouri nods just as her fairies finished reloading all nine guns.

Turning back to her enemy, Missouri watches as the Ru-class forced herself to her feet, struggling from busted ribs which made moving painful, glaring at Missouri with hate as she forced her guns to aim at her as she tried to stand but failed ultimately. Narrowing her eyes, Missouri doesn't hesitate as she snapped all her guns at her and fired shell after shell in a single fire succession, watching in cold satisfaction as the Ru-class stumbled back as one by one, her 16" shells blew holes on the Ru-class' body and guns as she walked towards her. After exhausting all nine guns, Missouri stands over the dying Battleship with a cold look on her eyes, staring directly at the Ru-class who was lying on her back as she bled out, a defying look of hatred burned painfully in her eyes.

"… For… every one o-of… us y-yo-you k-kill… t-there w-w-will be t-ten more… t-to r… replace us…" the Ru-class gritted out as she coughed out more blood.

"Quantity will never beat quality." Missouri says as she stands over the dying Abyssal who hacked more blood, "Besides, you're not the only one who can win by sheer quantity."

Lifting her right leg, her coat flapping behind her as a strong breeze passed by, Missouri ends the Ru-class before she could even reply by dropping her heeled foot so hard that she pops the Ru-class' head like a watermelon on the surface of the water, splattering black blood, skull fragments and brain bits everywhere and on her boot. Lifting her foot off the headless Abyssal, Missouri wipes her foot on the Abyssal's clothes as it sank below the water.

"Quite the brutality you have there, Missouri-san." Ise comments as she uses as white cloth to clean her sword before sheathing it back.

"Does that bother you?" Missouri asks with a low voice as the adrenaline left her.

"Nah, it's in our line of work after all. Isn't that right, Hyuuga?" Ise nudges her sister beside her who gave Missouri a small nod.

"Hm."

Hearing their answer, Missouri grins at them as Hiei pats the soot off her left shoulder with the back of her hand, "Missouri-san, what's our next objective?"

"You said that there was only thirteen tangoes here?" Missouri asks.

"Yes, that was what I said earlier." Hiei nods.

"Then we will do a quick sweep on our A.O. and do as planned." Missouri answers, "Ms. Kaga. Ms. Zuikaku. Please have a squadron scout the A.O. and the another to screen us."

"Hn."

"Yeah!"

A second later, Kaga sends a squadron up into the air and orders them to scout the A.O. while Zuikaku had hers screen the fleet, the two Carriers glaring at each other at the corners of their eyes.

"Heh. You didn't sink in five minutes, ice-cube." Zuikaku smirked at Kaga.

"And you didn't chicken out." Kaga shot back, "Turkey."

"Hah?! What was that?!" Zuikaku snapped, easily falling over a single jab every time.

"You heard what I said. Two Carriers fighting a single enemy and still having all their planes shot down and named after a bird is something you should be looking into." Kaga adds more salt into the wound as Zuikaku become livid.

"At least I didn't sink within five minutes after engaging the same enemy!" Zuikaku roared back.

Somewhere close to Sarushima Island, Enterprise sneezed while they engaged a pack of I-Type Destroyers and Light Carriers.

"Are they always like this?" Missouri asks rhetorically with a sweat-drop, staring at the two Carriers sending insults at each other like there's no tomorrow.

"Yep!" Ikazuchi chirps with Inazuma at her side, "Kaga-san and Zuikaku-san has always been like that even when they first met as shipgirls."

"Is that so?" Missouri raises an eyebrow.

"Yes, nanodesu!" Inazuma says, her innocent and pure aura pulling on Missouri's heart strings so hard she had to forcefully hold herself from hugging the living daylight out of the girl.

Sighing, Missouri prays to whatever God out there, "May the Admiral pull through."

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December 10, 2020;
A.O.: Wherever they're needed;
4th Fleet, Flagship: Yamato;
Time: 20:06:14hrs;

"Ma~n…" Shiratsuyu whines as she leaned on the ramp of the Chinook they are supposed to use when they are finally called, "This is boring! B-O-R-I-N-G!"

Beside her, sat the three AA Destroyers, led by Akizuki as their lead-ship. All three sat beside her, waiting for the go signal of when their services will be needed. Although, vigilant as they may be, they could not help but agree to Shiratsuyu's cries of boredom.

"Um… ano, Shiratsuyu-san," Akizuki starts slowly and gently, "I think that the reason why we are not called up yet is because of the other fleets having everything still under control on their ends. Don't you think so?"

Turning at the AA Destroyer with a deadpan look, Shiratsuyu throws her hands in the air as she popped a vein on the face, "Then what the hell are we here for then?! It's already been hours since the last fleet left!"

"Ehh…" scratching her left cheek, Akizuki turned to her sisters looking for help, Teruzuki and Hatsuzuki, both who shrugged at her in reply, "Uh… um… for the sortie?"

With a weak reply like that, Akizuki felt like hiding back in her room and never showing her face ever again from the embarrassment she's feeling at the moment. Fortunately for her, Takao was nearby, along with Tone, and decided to end her suffering as they made their presence known to the Destroyers.

"Now, now, Shiratsuyu-san…" Takao placated gently, "We shouldn't be rushing this, you know? Besides, don't you think that, if we are not called forth, then wouldn't that mean that our friends and sisters on the other fleets are doing okay?"

"But, then us being here, waiting, would be for nothing." Shiratsuyu replied hotly, "I wanna go out there and feel the rush of the wind, the spray of the sea and the heat of battle!"

Smirking at the young Destroyer, Tone walked towards her and ruffled her hair which the latter didn't take kindly into, "You've got quite the fire in there, kiddo."

"Hey! Stop that, Tone-san!"

"But, remember," Tone says, her face as serious as it can get which in turn demanded the Destroyer's full attention as she held Shiratsuyu on the shoulders, "All of those things might feel good, but make a mistake once and have your enemy take full advantage of it, it will be all over in a blink of an eye and you'll find yourself sinking to the bottom of the sea. Again."

"Now, now, Tone-san. Don't scare Shiratsuyu-san too much or she won't be able to sortie anymore." Takao said after she saw how Shiratsuyu paled all of the sudden when Tone said her piece.

"Sure!" Tone chirped as she let Shiratsuyu go, "Remember what I said, kiddo, and you should be fine."

"H-hai!" Shiratsuyu replied, all her confidence earlier gone in a flash, clearly shaken by that simply fact, "… sure thing…"

"Must you have scared the poor girl, Tone-san?" Takao asked her fellow Heavy Cruiser as they made a bit of distance from the four Destroyers of their fleet. On their left, the Highwind could be seen with its red-hot missile tubes, water being sprinkled on them, making the red hot metal hiss when in contact with water coming from water sprinklers above the airship to cool them off for quicker reload time.

Sighing, Tone turned to Takao and then to the full moon that has been up in the sky for the last few hours now, "It's better this way, Takao-san. If we let her or any of them be overconfident out there, it will not end well for them. At least, for now, she and the rest of these Destroyers will be able to watch over themselves now that we are not sortieing with the entire base."

"But, could you have not done it without scaring her to death like that?" Takao asks as she stared in concern at Shiratsuyu and the Akizuki-class Destroyers sit on the ramp silently.

"Well… I guess I may have gone a bit overboard there…" Tone replied, sheepishly.

"That you have." Jason says from behind, emerging from the Main Building's door, "Maybe next time, you could try to tone it down a little, yeah?"

"T-Teitoku?!" the two Heavy Cruiser saluted as they turned to Jason.

"At ease girls." Jason says, saluting back.

His black sleeveless shirt, with a battered pauldron at his left shoulder, and matching cargo pants doing a great job of hiding him from sight in the night. His sword slung snuggly on his back by black leather straps with his M1911s at his thighs, hidden by a tattered black cloth strapped on his waist like a half skirt/cape that flaps in the night wind. With every step he took, both Cruisers found themselves having trouble hearing his footsteps even when he's wearing a pair of steel-toed combat boots that's supposed to be making a ton of noise with the speed he's walking. Stopping in front of them, Jason glances at the Destroyers that are silently sitting in front of the ramp as the two Cruisers followed suit.

"Um… I… I didn't… ya' know… mean to scare her, Teitoku." Tone says apologetically as Jason didn't show any reaction whether he heard her or not. The eyepatch he wore making things more tense between the two Heavy Cruisers who had to swallow a hard lump as the seconds ticked by.

"Um… Teitoku, please don't be angry at Tone-san…" Takao whispers, her voice shaking because of not knowing how to handle a person she's only met recently, more so with a guy like Jason.

"I'm not angry." Jason said, turning at the two Heavy Cruisers, "I'm just contemplating whether if Shiratsuyu still wants to go to sortie or not."

"Why don't you ask her, Teitoku?" Akagi says as she and Shouhou appeared, having come from the Carriers' dorm.

Turning his head to her, Jason finds Akagi and Shouhou ready for the sortie, the former munching on a pail of bauxite, "I would, but I find myself wanting to ask you more on what do you think you're doing with the few resources you're currently munching on?"

"Ah! This?" pointing at the pale-full of bauxite excitedly, Akagi presents Jason a smile worth a thousand suns, "Bauxite helps us, Carriers, make better, stronger and faster planes."

"Really now?" Jason raises an eyebrow in this new-found information.

"Hai! That is why we must eat as much as we can to perform better, yes?" Akagi's smile widen as she munched on more bauxite as she popped a handful.

Meanwhile, Shouhou beside her looked worried as she stared at Jason who looked far from convinced of what Akagi has said – even if it presents some truth in it – while Akagi herself is just happily munching on said bauxite like its popcorn. Slowly inching herself away from the larger Carrier, Shouhou makes herself as small as possible.

"Well, if you say so, but I still have to run this through Akashi to get a better understanding of all things shipgirls." Jason said, before turning to Shouhou, "Are you ready, Shouhou?"

"H-hai!" Shouhou suddenly finds her face burning since addressing someone in Japan without suffixes meant that they share a close relationship, "T-thank you for having me participate in this mission, Teitoku!"

Staring at the bowing girl, Jason chuckles lowly as he patted Shouhou on the right shoulder lightly, "Enough of that, Shouhou. You must stand up properly, firmly and with dignity. Don't bow to something as small as this, it is not worth bowing to. Now rise and look at me in the face."

Slowly doing as she was told, Shouhou slowly lifts her head and timidly looks at Jason in the eye, before turning her face to the other direction twice as fast as she lifted them.

"Look in the face, Shouhou." Jason repeats, gently, "I won't bite."

Mustering up the courage, Shouhou shakily turns and looks at Jason who greeted her with a very toothy grin.

"Much."

"Eeep!"

Chuckling, Jason pats the panicking Shouhou lightly in the back as they all walk to the Chinook. Nearing the Chinook, Jason immediately finds himself waving to Shiratsuyu and saluting the three Akizuki-class AA Destroyers, of which he has yet to be introduced to.

"Commander!" Shiratsuyu greeted him back with a wave of her own.

"Yo." Jason said coolly, the black clothing covering the sides of his legs flapping loudly as a breeze passed by, "How are ya?"

"I'm fine!" Shiratsuyu grins at him as she rubbed the back of her head, "Why'd ya ask?"

"Nothing, just making sure is all." Jason shrugs, "After all, this is the first-time you girls will be sortieing without the rest of the base helping. So, I wanted to make some last-minute check and see if any of you girls feels like you're not ready yet to sortie."

"That's it?" Shiratsuyu asks.

"Yep."

"Well," Shiratsuyu starts, slowly, taking her time as she searched for words, "to tell you the truth, Commander, I'm a bit antsy and anxious right now. I wanna go out there and wreck some heads but I don't want to be careless at the same time and get myself and the others hurt because of me."

Smiling faintly, Jason walks to Shiratsuyu and places his hand on her left shoulder comfortably as the young DD stared at the ground, her voice dying down as she ended her speech. The moment Shiratsuyu lifted her head up to look at Jason, she was immediately greeted by his index and middle finger poking her in the forehead with a bit of a force as her head lurched back a bit.

"H-hey!"

Rubbing both her hands on where Jason had poked her – her fleet mates that are present giggling at her expense – and demanded, "What was that for?!"

"Turn that frown upside-down, will ya?" Jason grins cheekily as he crossed his arms comfortably, looking at Shiratsuyu's brown eyes with his own one, "Not all great things made and done are not without great risks in themselves. Sometimes, life will knock you down as hard as it can and as much as it can, and if you chose to stay down after it, then you lose. But, if you chose to rise back up, grin and say "Is that all you've got?" then you have already done something great. Take me for example, if I didn't say 'screw it' to every challenge and plunged head-first, I wouldn't be here with you girls. So, what I'm saying is that, don't let fear of what everybody says or thinks of you stop you, but it doesn't mean that you must turn a deaf ear to them. Listen to them, and reflect, after that, when you feel that you've found something, apply what you think is right and work from there. Remember, life cannot always be cheese and sprinkles, a balance must be in place for this world to work. Where there is evil, good shall come, but everybody got a different perspective on that so let's not dwell too much on it."

Shiratsuyu stared at Jason for some time, as his words sunk on her mind before she said, "I don't know what you just said is all about, but okay!"

Chuckling at her childish innocence, since she reminds him of his sisters quite a bit, Jason pats Shiratsuyu on the head and turns to the three AA Destroyers, "Hello there. I believe we haven't been introduced to each other. May I know the names of these three beautiful ladies standing in front of me?"

Teruzuki finds herself giggling from her Admiral's cliché romantic acts as she turned to her sisters and nodded. Standing in front, Akizuki took a heavy gulped and a deep breath as she let it all out.

"Akizuki-class Anti-Air Destroyer, first ship, Akizuki. I'm reporting in here. Please leave it to me!" Akizuki says as she saluted Jason.

Saluting her back, Jason grinned and said, "Keep up the good work, alright?"

"Hai!"

"And you are?" Jason turns to Teruzuki.

"I am Teruzuki, the second ship of the Akizuki-class Anti-Air Destroyer! As with Akizuki-nee-san, it is a great honor to be in your care!" Teruzuki's soft and gentle voice tickling Jason's ears as if they just came out from a lip of an angel.

"I hope I can be of your standards then, Teruzuki." Jason says, tightening his eye-patch a bit as he felt that it has loosened quite a bit after Mito's failed surprise attack earlier when he was changing clothes.

"M-me too!"

"And your name, ojou-chan?" Jason asks Hatsuzuki after adjusting his eye-patch in place.

"I'm the fourth ship of the Akizuki-class Destroyers, Hatsuzuki. Are you the Admiral?"

"Last I checked."

"Very well, I'll march on." Hatsuzuki's voice rang firmly and with confidence.

"Great. Now that we've introduced ourselves, we can get to the main reason why I've made this fleet a special one." Jason says as he motions for all of the shipgirls to get closer.

"Um… are we not going to wait for the rest to come over?" Akizuki asks worriedly.

"Just pass the word to them, right now, I'm not supposed to be out for the office so I'll have to make this quick." Jason said, "Anyway, since there are originally only three locations and three fleets should have been enough, I felt, for some reason, the need to add another and make it an AA build. What that means is that, I've focused on having you girls perform more in Anti-Air but I've made sure to balance out the firepower and armor, which explains the Fusou-class, Mutsu and Yamato."

"But, Teitoku, wouldn't that mean that this fleet has the highest resource consume rate out of all the fleets?" Takao asks analytically.

"To put it in layman's terms, yes, this is the fleet that can pretty much send us all in the red, but none of you girls have to worry your pretty little butts on the resources. Leave that to me and when I have to. Besides, earlier this afternoon, we've received intel – after intercepting their comms – that the Abyssals are keeping a fuck ton amount of resources on Sarushima Island, where the Abyssals we've fought yesterday came from. I planned to send you girls there but should the other fleets need help of any kind, I'll have to split this fleet accordingly, but as much as possible, I want our Battleships to go to Sarushima Islands since we have an inkling that a Hime-class Abyssal is protecting the island. What kind, I don't know but I want us to play on the safe side for now. Besides, even if you girls will be the first to respond to the 1st fleet, I plan on having the 2nd and 3rd move there and overwhelm the enemy with sheer numbers and firepower." Jason explains as thoroughly as he can.

"I see. Thank you for the clarification, Teitoku." Takao smiles gratefully.

"No problem. Anyhow, when your other fleet-mates arrives, please do tell them what I've told you." Jason said, before grabbing a radio from one of his pockets that has been vibrating for quite some time now, "Yes, this is Jason, what do you need?"

"Jason," Rafael's voice crackles over the radio, "I've patrolled the north-east section of the base. Everything's clear as of the moment. Over."

"Roger that. Keep up the good work, Raf. Over."

"Roger. Over and out."

With that, Jason pockets the radio again as Tone spoke, "Neh, Teitoku… I've been meaning to ask, but why are you dressed like that?"

Turning to her, Jason eyes her for a second before moving his sight over his clothes and says, "Well, to tell you the truth, Rafael, Kushina, Mikoto and I are keeping watch while I have Saber work up a schedule for things and the like."

"Really? For what?" Akagi asks as she finished her pale of bauxite.

"For anything." Jason replies firmly, "We will not be caught unprepared. Not this time around…"

Rolling his arms, which drew attention from the shipgirls who had a hard time ripping their eyes away from, Jason took a deep breath as the cold wind touched his bare skin. Feeling his radio vibrate again, after having turned off the beeping sound since its already night time, Jason picks it up and answered.

"He~llo?"

"Teitoku!" Ooyodo's frantic voice immediately drew everyone's attention.

"Yes, Ooyodo?! What's the matter?!" Jason asks just as urgently.

"The 1st fleet have finally engaged the Hime-class Abyssal we talked about earlier!"

"Is that so?" Jason murmurs without having pressed the button to reply back.

"They are also requesting for help. They've reported that they've already suffered a casualty!" Ooyodo says.

Behind him, the shipgirls present gasped in horror while Jason fought himself not to crush the radio and charge to Sarushima Island himself. Steeling himself, he moves the radio to his mouth.

"Who?"

"Kirishima-san, Teitoku. They've reported that she's taken a direct hit from a bomb but it has failed to penetrate her armor. I'm currently receiving reports that her fairies have managed to fix as much as they can but additional help are needed." Ooyodo said from her end.

"I see." Jason sighs, "Ooyodo."

"Hai?!"

"I want you to contact both 2nd and 3rd fleet and tell them to break radio silence."

"Hai! Anything else, sir?"

"Ask if any of them are available and if they are, reroute their course back to Sarushima Island now. Also, tell the 1st fleet to start painting targets for the JGSDF and the JASDF to hit. The missile strikes earlier has depleted the Highwind for the next few minutes until she can reload." Jason orders as Rafael's silhouette stood on top of the main building, holding a scythe that is too darkly colored to make out any detaails with the moon shining brightly behind him.

"Hai, I will send it as soon as possible. Over and out."

Turning around, Jason turns to Takao, since she's the most leader-like figure in the area and said, "Takao, contact the rest of your fleet and tell them to get in here as fast as they can. Your fleet is leaving in five. Your flagship will be Yamato and I expect all of you to follow her orders, which are basically coming from me anyway. Am I understood?"

"Hai!" Takao salutes as she immediately did as she was told.

Glancing at each shipgirl, Jason nods to them encouragingly, "As of now, your comrades needs you. I don't have anything sappy to say, other than 'Good Luck' and kick some ass royally to kingdom come."

"Hai!"

"You can count on me, Commander!" Shiratsuyu grins as she pumped her chest.

"Make me proud."

Jason nods to all of them before leaving, disappearing in the dark of the night as Rafael, too, disappeared elsewhere.

"Alright, you heard the man. Let's go!" Takao said as the pilot and the co-pilot turned the Chinook's engines on, the massive rotor blades on top spinning faster and faster.

Entering the Chinook, Takao made sure to go last just as Fusou and Yamashiro arrived, having come from the Battleship section of the building.

"What took you two so long?!" Takao, having needed to yell through the sound, asked.

"We had to clean the room before we go to sortie!" Yamashiro replied.

"Forgive us," Fusou bowed, "We didn't want to leave anything out of place should anything happen to us!"

"Please don't raise any death flags, Fusou-san!"

"Come on, Fusou-nee-sama!" Yamashiro says as she gently pulled her sister inside.

"H-hai!"

"I'm not late, am I?" Mutsu asks as she and Yamato arrived as the Chinook prepared to go.

"No! You're just in time, but you've just missed Teitoku!" Takao says, "And he wanted us to pass a message to all of you late-comers."

"Really? What did he say?" Yamato asked.

Telling them what Jason has said, Takao gives the pilot thumbs up who in turn pushed a button and closed the ramp before taking flight.

"I see. We should then perform with all our heart into it. But, for Teitoku to put me as flagship, I don't think I'm ready." Yamato confesses, her face heating up in embarrassment of being placed on the top again.

"Think nothing of it, Yamato-san!" Tone chirped, "As long as we can help our friends to the utmost of our efficiency, we will make it through."

"Yeah! Even if we're not the named the 1st, we will show them that we are first in terms of results!" Shiratsuyu says.

All around her, each and every one of the shipgirls voices their agreement as they sat across each other, only separated by a line of their neatly placed riggings in front of them.

"Arigatou, minna-san." Yamato smiled gratefully to all, "If Teitoku thinks I must lead this fleet, then who am I to say no? Please give me your strength!"

"Hai!"

"Forty-five seconds before drop-off!" the co-pilot called from the cockpit as they flew at flank speed towards Sarushima Island, where a MGM-140 ATACMS missile smashes close to the Hime-class Abyssal who roared in pain, which was closely followed by three more, scoring a direct hit on the Hime-class Abyssal's right monstrous pale arm, blowing a chunk of it to smithereens.

"About time you guys got here!" Enterprise called over the radio, having sent a Fighter Squadron in the air to screen the 4th fleet's arrival.

Dropping in low, the Chinook hovers over the water by a meter as the pilot opens the ramp which the shipgirls of the fourth fleet immediately exited from. Dropping in the water, Yamato faintly hears the pilots tell them good luck before they took their leave. Loading Type 3 Shells, Yamato narrows her eyes at the hundreds of planes ducking it out it in the skies above them.

"Forgive us, Enterprise-san." Yamato says as she took aim, at maximum elevation, "We shall assist you from here on. Akagi-san. Shouhou-san. Please send in two Fighter squadrons in the air. Enterprise-san, Katsuragi-san, lure the enemy planes to us! Everyone, prepare your AA guns!"

"Hai!"

"Roger that!" Enterprise said as she had her fighters, along with Katsuragi who had their planes break off with the 1st fleet covering their escape.

"Covering fire!" Bismarck yelled as she had her AA guns focus on the Abyssal fighters.

"AA guns, focus on those planes!" Wisconsin yelled as her and New Jersey's AA guns roared back to life.

"Rip and tear, girls!" New Jersey said to her AA fairies.

As their planes dived after having broken off, Katsuragi and Enterprise had their planes lure the hostile planes towards them which blindly followed them. At the last second, both Carriers had their fighters move out of the way as Yamato and the others prepared to fire.

"First and second cannons, volley fire, start!" Yamato declared as her mighty 18.1-inch guns loaded with Type 3 Shells ripped through the air with more power than Wisconsin and New Jersey's 16"/50 cal. Mark 7 could put out in a single blow.

Less than a split second later, the late fuse from the six 18.1-inch shells burns out and ignites the shells, sending large quantities of hot metal shrapnels that simply disintegrates most of the Abyssal planes out of existence in one single blow. An angry roar echoes as the Hime-class glares bloody murder at Yamato and the combined force of the 1st and 4th fleet that stares down at her, fearless as they knew that they all stand within the ranks of their allies.

"You will not pass through here…!" the Abyssal princess said in her personal spot in the island where a dark stormy cloud spun on top of her, her voice full of hatred and disgust towards anything man has created.

"We shall see." Bismarck murmurs as Yamato sailed to a stop next to her, "Nice shot, Ms. Yamato."

"Ah! Thank you, Bismarck-san." Yamato replies back with a smile, "You seem to be having fun."

"Ja. It has been quite thrilling this past few hours of fighting, but, I didn't think our friend over there, Ms. Kirishima, would take a direct hit from her bombs." Bismarck says, shaking her head in disappointment at herself, "There were just too many of them for us to go against."

"I would be lying if I said I didn't know how you feel, but that shouldn't matter too much now that we're here to support you." Yamato smiled at her fellow Battleship.

"Ho~?" Bismarck grinned haughtily, "How so?"

"Well, as you can see, Teitoku has chosen to have a balance loadout in our fleet with powerful AA, enough armor and tremendous firepower." Yamato says with great pride as she pointed at the three AA Destroyers who are currently taking down plane after plane with their Choujuusenchihou-chans like there's no tomorrow, "See?"

"Yes, quite nice of him, but so is our fleet." Bismarck grins proudly as she pointed at her fellow Battleships rip planes out of the sky with the two American Fast Battleships doing their AA magic.

"So foolish…" the Hime-class murmured in barely concealed wrath, "To think such puny mongrels like you would dare ignore I, the Armored Carrier Princess. You all deserve nothing but painful death! Sink!"

Summoning more planes, with enough numbers to paint the night sky white, and more Abyssal smaller ships, orders them all to attack with a mere flick of a hand.

Bracing for the attack, all Battleships from the 4th fleet immediately loads Type 3 Shells while the two flagships orders their Carriers to attack as well.

"Akagi-san! Shouhou-san! Intercept those planes, now!" Yamato orders as she had her multiple AAs do their work, along with everyone else who carries such weapons.

"Hai! First attack squadron, launch!" Akagi cries as she sent her Type 0 Fighter Model 21 back in the air after having refueled.

"First squadron, airborne!"

"Hai! Don't stray too far, girls!" Shouhou says as she sent her Type 0 Fighter Model 21 – supplied to her by both Jason and Akashi since she didn't have any Fighters on board her hangars – back in the air, "Straying too far from the fleet is dangerous…"

"Group one, engaging the enemy!"

"Uh… is this thing on?" their Admiral's voice erupts in their comms as Jason finally returned to his office, "Ah, right, my bad. Anyway, 1st and 4th fleet, form triple columns. Fan out, six meters. Destroyers and Light Cruisers, engage the enemy ships that are present. 1st Battleships, engage the main enemy. 4th fleet, follow suit."

"Um… Teitoku, our guns are currently loaded with Type 3 Shells…" Yamato weakly replies back as they moved at the specified formation.

"Really? Then fire it at the enemy Air and reduce those buggers for the Carriers to work their charm on." Jason replies not a second too late.

"Hai!"

Doing as planned, the Battleships of the 4th fleet raised their guns at max elevation, pointed at the incoming barrage of Abyssal Fighters, Dive Bombers and Torpedo Bombers. Meanwhile, the Battleships of the 1st fleet raised their guns aimed at the Armored Carrier Princess, ready to fire as the smaller ships engaged a multitude of Ne-class, Ri-class, Tsu-class, To-class, He-class and a handful of Ha-class Destroyers.

"Elevation, 30 degrees! Wind speed, 10 knots! Bearing, 310! Range, 700 meters!" Bismarck yelled as loud as her voice could allow as their fairies worked overtime to loud HE rounds on their main batteries, "Fire on my command!"

"Raise to maximum elevation! Load Type 3 Shells!" Yamato ordered as their guns turned in place, along with her other gun situated behind her, "On my command!"

Turning at their Carriers, both flagships nodded at them, sending a silent message to move in after they fire and turned back on their enemies.

"IKE! / FIRE!"

Eight Battleships, sixty-seven guns and a hell of a loud fire later, their shells raised towards their targets without mercy as the Type 3 Shells obliterated ¾ of the aerial force of the Armored Carrier Princess as the friendly planes swooped in for the kill while a half and a gun scored multiple hits close to the Armored Carrier who was powerless as shells after shells bombarded her place.

"Agh! ! !" the Hime-class Abyssal screamed in agony as the heat and shrapnels combined with the extreme kinetic force brought by the High Explosive shells burned and catharized her creature's exposed wounds and skin to crisps while ripping and punching holes in her armor, "I will not sink!"

Raising her short-barreled Twin Mount 16" Guns, she immediately set her eyes on the largest ship, which happened to be Yamato, and aimed all guns at her, "Die, you mongrel!"

With a mighty clap of thunder, five 16" AP shells travels in the air, spinning like a drill leaving behind a small thin smoke trail as they headed straight for Yamato who was already ready, after having been notified by her fairies on the highest level of her bridge that an enemy as taken aim at them. Gripping her umbrella hard, the poor metal groaning under her monstrous shipgirl strength, Yamato roars and uses said umbrella and slapped away all five shells. Two shattered from the force alone while the rest exploded away from Yamato and her fleet. Glaring at the Armored Carrier, as the Carriers fought for air supremacy, Yamato lowers her smoking umbrella and started moving at ¾ speed, sailing towards the Abyssals at 19.3 knots.

"Something as petty as that will not hurt me!" She says coldly as she turned to her fleet mates, "Let's move, everyone! Fusou-san, Yamashiro-san. Sail at my flanks. Mutsu-san, behind me!"

"Hai!" the three Battleships replied as they caught up with their flagship.

"Akagi-san, Shouhou-san. Cover us." Yamato commanded, with gentle firmness in her voice, "Tone-san, Takao-san! Be advised, we're moving up at your six! Check your fire, over!"

"We read you, Yamato-san!" Takao said as she turned all her guns at her right, "Enemy off starboard, fire!"

Four 20.3cm AP shells at a Ne-class later, who disappeared from sight after taking a point-blank range fire, Takao was free of any Abyssal presence and was already on her way helping Tone who was battling two Tsu-class Cruisers.

"That all ya got, huh?!" Tone jeered as she dodged 5" shells left and right from the pair of frustrated Abyssal Cruisers who couldn't help but want to break her neck from the taunts, "'Cuz I got more of those from where I came from!"

Aiming her three 20.3cm Twin Gun Mounts, Tone fired at one of the Tsu-class a full broad-side, zeroing into the enemy's citadel and blowing her in half as a 5" AP shell ricocheted from the armor of one of her guns, making her jump a little after she forgot the other one for a brief second. Gunning her boilers to maximum speed, Tone dashes left and right as she waited for her guns to reload. Turning to a complete stop, her feet gliding on top of the water like its solid ground, Tone took aim just as her guns reloaded and fired, popping the head of the unfortunate Tsu-class Cruiser with six AP Shells after she was caught in the middle of reloading her guns. Watching the headless enemy fall on her back, Tone gave it a peace sign and a smirk just as Takao came to a stop on her side.

"I must say," Takao comments as she stared at the sinking dead Abyssal Cruiser, "That was quite the shot you pulled there."

"Aye. That was all planned if you asked me." Tone said proudly as she brushed her nose and sent a thumb's up at Takao, "Pretty cool, yeah?"

"Hai, but we must keep moving. Yamato-san said she's rendezvousing with us." Takao informs her as she watched both her sister, Maya, and Tenryuu wreak havoc on the Abyssal lines with their fists and sword respectively, "Should we offer some assistance to those two?"

Looking at the two, Tone grinned and said, "Nah. Let them have their fun. Besides, here comes Yamato-san herself."

And true to her words, both Cruisers that are currently in the middle of a bloodbath are both enjoying their fair share of tangoes as they let loose. And unlike what they went through against Jason earlier this morning, a shameful loss really, both were being rewarded with kills after kills.

Sailing towards the two Heavy Cruisers, Yamato and her crew forms a solid AA bubble that slaughters any planes that are stupid enough to dare. Coming to a stop next to them, Yamato surveys the battle as Bismarck and the Battleships of the 1st fleet fired their second salvo before moving in closer after their shells landed.

"I see that you two have enjoyed your fight." Yamato smiles at the two as she saw floating and sinking bodies of Takao and Tone's earlier preys who has expired after being used as chew toys.

"Naw~ what makes you say that, Yamato-san?" Tone laughs good naturedly as her AA guns fired at an enemy plane.

"A gut feeling, if you may." Yamato smiled before turning to the Abyssal Princess, "We still have a bigger fish to fry though."

"Then we must not waste any more time." Takao says, "We must strike now while the 1st fleet keeps her distracted for us."

"That's a good idea." Jason says in the radio after listening on their plan, "Also, while you're all at it, be advised, the 3rd fleet is on their way. Eta, ten mikes. Over and out."

"Copy your last, Teitoku." Yamato replies.

"Ara~ara. What's the plan, Yamato-san?" Mutsu asks as her secondaries bombarded Abyssal Cruisers with AP shells, giving a clear indication that any closer and it will be the bigger guns that takes care of them.

"Rendezvous with the 3rd fleet, along with the 1st fleet and engage the Hime-class Abyssal." Yamato says as she was struck by a five-inch shell in her no.1 gun's forward armor, shattering upon impact as it was no match for her.

"What about the 2nd fleet, Yamato-san?" Fusou asks as their solid AA bubble obliterated planes after planes in the sky, their secondaries going off every second against multiple small Abyssal ships, "Will they be joining us as well?"

"I do not know, Fusou-san." Yamato shakes her head, "Let me ask Teitoku first."

With a quick command to her communication's fairy, Yamato immediately contact's Jason via radio, "Teitoku."

"Yes, Yamato? What do you need?" Jason asks from the other side.

"Um… I would like to ask when would the 2nd fleet be joining us in fighting the Hime-class Abyssal?" Yamato asks as a shell flew over their heads, landing on the water behind them a few meters back with a great splash courtesy of the Hime-class Abyssal.

"Hmm… well, they've just contacted me a while ago reporting about a small force of the JGSDF dispatched on Mikasa to protect said museum ship from Abyssal hands." Jason off-handedly says, "Said force is currently engaging the Abyssals with heavy weaponry like the .50 cal. M82 Barret sniper rifle, Heavy machine guns, rocket launchers and the like. The 2nd fleet managed to get the drop on them, before the Abyssals could land a hit on the Mikasa, with the Carriers' Dive and Torpedo Bombers."

"Really?" Yamato asks, "That is very good to hear!"

"Yeah, it is. Fortunately, the small force sent by the JGSDF would have been overrun if not for our girls arriving there just on time to bust some heads in." Jason sends the good news to Yamato and all the Japanese shipgirls who whooped in delight, invigorated by the great news, "Now those peeps have no reason to say no to any favors I ask…"

"I'm sure Mikasa-san would have been happy to know her country still cares for her old hull." Mutsu smiles.

"I'm sure she would be, Mutsu. I'm sure she would." Jason agrees with her, "Anyway, I've just received another message from the 2nd fleet. It says that they're on their way. Eta, 15 mikes."

"Roger your last, Teitoku." Yamato says as the link was cut.

"So, all we have to do is hold out until further reinforcements arrive?" Yamashiro asks the flagship.

"More or less, but we can't just stand here and waste ammunition and fuel on this stalemate." Akagi says over the radio, having stayed with the Carriers of the 1st fleet, as her squadron came back to refuel and rearm, having sent the 2nd Squadron just before they've landed, "We need to push them back and push them back now! Shouhou-san, get ready to strafe them!"

"Hai!" Shouhou replied as she had her Model 21s fly to their maximum height, disappearing from the clouds before turning back down as they maxed their speed, falling towards a squad of unsuspecting Abyssal fighters that are currently engaged with Akagi's 2nd Squadron, "S-show them what you got, girls!"

"Group one, re-engaging the enemy!"

With their engines drowned by the sound of warfare below and their surroundings, Shouhou's planes easily and stealthily mows down all of the planes who stood no chance from the surprise attack that obliterates their entire squad in seconds.

"Thanks for the assist, Shouhou-san!" Akagi smiles as her girls returned back to her as the 1st Squadron replaced them in the air.

"H-hai!" Shouhou smiles, "It was nothing really, Akagi-san."

"Less talking, more killing!" Enterprise yelled as she and Katsuragi tag-teamed Abyssal planes left and right, moving as fast as they can.

"There's just way too many of them!" Katsuragi yelled as she sent another squad in the air to help out with her other planes in the air."

"Group three, heading to waypoint!"

"Did someone call for reinforcements?" Zuikaku asked as her planes opened fire at the Abyssal planes that are harassing Katsuragi's squad, eliminating them without hesitation. Sailing straight for the Carrier group of the two fleets 700 meters away, Zuikaku and Kaga make haste as their fleet covers them.

"About time you got here, Crane!" Enterprise laughed as she notched a Torpedo Bomber.

"Sorry. We got hold up back in Futtsu looking for something worth taking." Zuikaku replied as she sent a Dive Bomber in the air, "Not that we found anything, at all."

"If only a certain CarDiv 5 didn't take too long to re-arm, we would have covered more grounds." Kaga comments just as they arrived next to the 1st and 4th fleets' Carriers, tagging three Ne-class Heavy Cruisers by her torps and bombs, sinking on with the former when it hit the magazines causing a detonation.

"Huh?! What was that, Ex-Battleship?!" Zuikaku snapped at Kaga, glaring bloody murder as her planes strafed and shot down an entire Dive Bomber squadron in the air, "You wanna pick a fight, huh?!"

Sighing in her hands, Enterprise turned to Katsuragi who was clearly on Zuikaku's side, "Does this happen often?"

"Hai!" Katsuragi nods as she watched raptly, "Either one of them will start and the other will end it. It's funny to watch, really."

"You don't say…" Enterprise raises an eyebrow as she watched the two argue some more.

"How's everything on your end, girls?" Jason asks the Carriers.

"We're doing fine, Teitoku!" Akagi says, cupping her ears to hear Jason better with all the explosions and gin fire going on around them, "But, on behalf of all the fleets present here today, I think we must end this soon."

"Right you are, Akagi." Jason replies, "The Highwind's just reloaded its missiles. Also, just to inform you girls, there are five JASDF F-35s currently flying on top of your location. Sending them your coordinates now, standby. Alright, coordinates sent and I've managed to connect with the F-35 squad leader. Callsign: Falcon-1 Actual."

"Hai!" Akagi cries just as the connection died.

"JASDF plane to JMSDF Akagi. This is Falcon-1 Actual, do you read me over?" a feminine voice, quite cheery in fact, rang out in their radios in fluent English with prominent Japanese accent as five signatures suddenly appeared on their radars, "Can you see us?"

'JMSDF…? Who?' almost all of the Carriers present thought in confusion.

"H-hai!" Akagi says as she turned her head up, just in time to see dark silhouettes in the night sky which was moving too fast to be any of their planes.

"Good. Anyway, after having received this mission at 1625hrs, we've been assigned to help you lots as best as we can." The jolly Falcon-1 Actual said, "Paint your targets and we'll take care of them for ya!"

"S-sure! It's an honor to work with you. Please take care of us." Akagi says politely.

"No, ma-am, the honor is ours. To see the Red Castle once again and not just in pictures or models is really the greatest honor, ma'am!" Falcon-1 Actual said which caused Akagi to hide her face in embarrassment as the meaning of her name was said in open radio just like that.

"Hawawawawa…"

"Tch." Kaga clicks her tongue in annoyance as she took over the conversation for Akagi, "This is IJN- er, J-JMSDF Kaga, sending coordinates."

Noticing the annoyance in her voice, and her slip up, most shook their heads at her for her careless mistake, other than Enterprise who kept an eye on Kaga as she had her planes strafe a bomber squadron of six from below, which were heading to the 1st fleet's Battleships who were chugging forward to meet up with 4th and the 3rd fleet's Battleships and Cruisers.

"Coordinates received! Launching JSM-1 now!" Falcon-1 Actual said as they launched one of their two single precision-guided Joint Strike Missiles each, "Five seconds to impact."

"Look at them go!" an unknown male's voice rang out in the radio.

"Falcon-2 Mike, you're lagging behind!" Falcon-1 Actual scolded.

"AH! Shimatta!"

Detaching the missiles as they hovered in their air for a second before arming and shooting of in the distance, their solid fuel rocket booster, Microturbo TRI 40 turbojet propelling the missile to high subsonic speed which none of the Abyssal AA-guns being able follow. Flying in the air, all five followed their computerized mapped out trajectory as they flew towards their locked-on targets. Screeching in the air like a banshee with its head off, the targeted Abyssal ships, which happened to be one Tsu-class, a Ne-class and one Ru-class Battleship – that appeared out of nowhere – barely had any time at all to react as they all ate humanity's wrath with the Ru-class having taken three direct hits which obliterated her in an instant as her magazines exploded, the other two not far behind.

"Scratched one out!" Falcon-1 Actual confirmed in the radio, "Got us anymore targets?"

Watching the Abyssal Armored Carrier Hime replace all the planes she's lost, Enterprise immediately diverted her Fighters and a Dive Bomber group to her as she sent the coordinates, "This is USN Enterprise CV(N)-6, sending coordinates. Think you guys are up to it?"

"Roger-roger!" Falcon-1 Actual said as she flew on top of the Abyssal AA range, "Sending JSM-2! JSM-2, launched! Be advised, danger close."

With a command from their squad leader, five JSM missiles screeches on the air as they flew at break neck speed, heading straight for the Armored Carrier Hime who was in the middle of launching her planes, leaving herself exposed. The Armored Carrier Hime didn't know what hit her as one of her primary hangars was suddenly blown up to smithereens nor did she have a second to scream in pain as the explosion engulfed her and her partially airborne planes.

"How's that?" Falcon-1 Actual asked with giddy.

"Hmm… I'd give it an 8.5/10." Enterprise grinned as she and the other Carriers had their planes mow down more Abyssal planes before they could be reinforced again.

"Not bad, I'd say. Coming from them Grey ghost herself, I think I'll take it as a compliment!" Falcon-1 Actual said before her squad started heading back to their base, the powerful screams of their engines growing fainter the farther they got, "Be advice, Falcon Squad heading back to base to refuel and rearm. We'll be back in a few minutes if you need us."

"Roger that, Falcon-1 Actual." Akagi smiled as they watched the jets fly by, "Thanks for the assist!"

"Hai~" Falcon-1 Actual replied, "Tell Jay he owes me double for this."

"Eh?" Akagi and the other Carriers blinked in confusion, "W-wha…?"

Chuckling in the radio, Falcon-1 Actual says, "Just tell him, Akagi-san. He'll know what to do."

"H-hai…"

"Well then, we'll be out for now. Good luck."

"Hai…"

"Akagi, sit-rep." Jason said, suddenly talking out of nowhere making Akagi and the Carriers jump in their place.

"U-um… Everything's under control, Teitoku." Akagi says hesitantly, "… but… um… F-Falcon-1 Actual said that… uh… you owe her double…? Or something like that."

"Ah… Don't worry, it's nothing you girls should worry yourself about." Jason reassures them with a slight laugh, "It's just that she's my second-cousin, her full name being Yamamoto Yukiko and she's a massive fan of Star Wars. She's probably going to ask me something along of taking her to the cinemas or buying a really expensive 3D model of either the Death Star or a Republican Star Destroyer."

"I see…" the Carriers nods in understanding, "What's Star Wars?"

"It's one of the best movie trilogies with massive background stories and etc. ever created by man!" Enterprise cries in glee, "We should watch it sometime. Maybe Emily has some copy with her."

"No need, Rafael told me he has all the movies with him. Just ask him for the USB when you girls return." Jason tells them, "Anyway, Bismarck. How's your end of the line doing?"

"We are in a bit of bind, Admiral, but nothing we cannot handle!" Bismarck says as she fired AP rounds from her 15" guns, scoring a citadel hit on a Ne-class who was blown away in an instant the shells penetrated her in the stomach, "There's just no end to these things! Frau Kirishima! To your left, eight o'clock!"

"Hai! Mic check 1, 2, 3!" Kirishima bellows as her guns snapped at a Ri-class Bismarck warned her about, "Ike! ! !"

"Aaaaggghhh! ! !" the Ri-class screamed as she was gunned-down at point blank range by eight 14" AP shells.

"Everyone, keep within each other's Anti-Aircraft gun range! We must not let the enemy get a drop on us again, that goes for you too, Frau Kirishima." Bismarck said, her AA-guns along with the two American and Japanese Fast battleships chewing Abyssal planes right out of the air.

"You don't have to remind me, Bismarck-san!" Kirishima yells over from the loud explosions around them.

"W-we need to keep the Cruisers a-and the Destroyers co-covered as well!" Wisconsin stammers as she one-shots a random Ru-class Battleship from a distance after she showed her wide broadside, "I… I got t-them!"

"Good work, sis!" New Jersey compliments her sister as her guns hungrily seek out targets to shoot at, "Die!"

Firing her mighty 16" guns, New Jersey watches as her nine AP shells sail through the air before plunging down to an unfortunate To-class who took eight of those nine shells to the face before being detonated in a flash of fire.

"Hell yeah!" New Jersey whooped in joy as she scored another, "Kill after kill, today's really a good day to be a shipgirl!"

"Roger that!" Maya agrees as she smashed her right fist on the cheeks of a Tsu-class as hard as she can, watching in satisfaction as blood, spit and a tooth flew in the air before following it up with an upper cut, "Eat this!"

Snapping her guns at her, Maya lets it all out in a single burst, sending her opponent flying away. Landing like a ragdoll, the bleeding, scorched and fatally wounded Tsu-class tries to stand, but try as she might, her wounds are too grave for her to keep fighting therefore just after a few more seconds of trying, her body gives out on her as she exhaled her last breath, her eyes slowly closing as darkness engulfed her.

"Nice kill!" Tenryuu gave Maya thumbs-up before immediately bringing up her sword to parry an AP shell directed at her, "Teme!"

Revving her engines to their maximum output, Tenryuu slices through the water with the rage of a woman scorned as she sailed towards the Ri-class that wanted a piece of her. Gripping her sword with two hands, Tenryuu blocks a hard strike from a Chi-class with a loud clang as metal met metal, blocking away in an angle that led the heavy torpedo launcher of the Chi-class Heavy Cruiser on sliding at Tenryuu's side harmlessly. Grunting, Tenryuu raises her sword high in the air as the Chi-class stumbled, before bringing it down as hard as she can with a roar, slashing deeply on the back of the Abyssal who roared in pain. Turning around to her with a wild look of rage, the Chi-class was met with Tenryuu's sword slashing to her neck, blade first before gorily slicing her head off without much trouble as blood sprayed everywhere. Breathing heavily, Tenryuu – tainted by the blood of her enemies – turned around and barely had any time to dodge and would have ate an 8" HE shell to the face if not for her adrenaline driven reflexes making her body duck instinctively, her sword at the ready as it gleamed brightly under the moonlight, stained by the blood of the foes she's cut down earlier.

"Wanna dance?" Tenryuu grinned predatorily as she got into a stance, the tip of her sword pointed directly at the Ri-class' neck, "Let's dance!"

Charging at one another, Tenryuu lets her sword cut the surface of the water as she leaned her body forward to add more speed to her movement while the Ri-class held her arms at her sides, ready to clock Tenryuu to oblivion. Roaring at one another, both combatants launched themselves in the air, weapons at the ready with Tenryuu's sword flying towards its target's mid-section while the Ri-class' right Abyssalized fist flying in the air towards Tenryuu's face.

"Raaaaagggghhhh! ! !" Tenryuu yelled as she and the Ri-class drew closer to one another.

"Dieee! ! !" The Ri-class Cruiser screeched with its melodic, yet demonic voice filled with corruption and hatred.

BOOM! ! !

BOOM! ! !

BOOM! ! !

Three 16" guns went off in a single fire all of a sudden, three heavy AP shells smashing at the sides of the Ri-class sending her flying in the air on the opposite direction of where the shells came from, easily killing the Cruiser within a matter of nanoseconds, just before the two Cruisers got to one another leaving Tenryuu to slash the air in pure shock with eyes wide and heart beating out of her chest of fear. Landing on the water with a splash, Tenryuu turned her head to the right robotically and stared at New Jersey's smug grin before turning livid herself.

"You could have killed me!"

"You're welcome!"

"As I stated before, Admiral," Bismarck says, her left eyebrow twitching for some reason as she stared at the two shipgirls yell profanity and empty death threats at each other, "… nothing we cannot handle."

"Roger that~." Jason chuckles on the other end, "To all fleets, be advised, 2nd fleet is enroute to your position, due north. ETA, seven mikes out. Over."

"Copy that, Teitoku." Yamato answers as they engaged multiple – bordering a hundred – Abyssal planes sent to them with their superior AA-gun fires decimating them, "Akizuki-san! Provide AA support, how copy?!"

"Solid copy, Ya-Yamato-san!" Akizuki replies within a moment's notice, "Rerouting back to you! Teruzuki-chan, Hatsuzuki-chan, Shiratsuyu-chan, let's go!"

"Hai~hai!" Shiratsuyu gave a two-finger mock-salute, "Yuudachi-chan! Take care of this area for me, 'kay?"

"Sure, nee-chan! Poi!"

Sailing as fast as their Destroyer engines could take them, the four Destroyers of the 4th fleet swerved left and right avoiding falling bombs from Abyssal planes which are gunned down by the Akizuki-sisters or the shells flying everywhere from everywhere. Reaching their Battleship and Cruiser friends, the four Destroyers got into a square formation with their Battleships and Cruisers inside, further adding their AA fire to the already overkill AA bubble the Battleships and Cruisers are maintaining.

"Let's move!" Yamato announces, "We need to deal with that Abyssal Hime, now!"

"Hai!"

Moving at 20 knots, the 4th fleet, bar their Carriers who are busy having their planes dog-fight and cover them at the same time, makes haste as they turn their guns towards the heavily injured Abyssal Armored Carrier Hime who was struggling very badly after receiving multiple direct hits.

"Mind if we join?" Missouri asks through radio as the 3rd fleet comes in contact with the 4th fleet.

"The more the merrier, or so they say~. Ufufufu." Mutsu giggles in her hand which Missouri smiles in return.

"Thanks."

"How did your mission go in Futtsu, Missouri-san?" Yamato asks the flagship of the 3rd fleet as their fleet mates waved at each other.

"Not so bad, I'd say, just that we didn't find anything worth taking." Missouri says, shrugging her shoulders as her soot-dusted fleet-mates sailed behind her, "How about you, Ms. Yamato?"

"We are doing very good, but it would seem that we would need to end this mission now." Yamato says with a smile as their AA-guns casually shot down planes.

"Then what are we waiting for?" Missouri grinned, "Let's go!"

"Yeah!" Hiei and the rest of the 3rd fleet pumped their fists in the air in excitement, "Hiei sailing forth with all her might, again!"

"Ready, Hyuuga?" Ise asked her sister with a grin, shouldering her katana.

"As ready as I'll ever be." Hyuuga replied as she glared at the small chip on her katana, "I still do not have any clue where this came from…"

"Aw~. Cheer up, will ya? We'll get that fixed when we get back home." Ise encouraged her sister.

"Hn."

"Charge!" Sendai yelled in glee as she fired her guns at every Abyssals she could lay her eyes on, "Hahahaha! Night battle! Night battle! Night battle! ! ! !"

"S-Sendai-san, please slow down!" Mogami called at the currently intoxicated night battle nut whose had too much night battle for the night.

"Pleas behave yourself, Sendai-san!" Takao scolded said battle nut with a disapproving look, "I say to you, Nuts!"

"Chill, Takao." Tone grinned, "The night is still young, let her enjoy herself. Although she should start slowing down or she'll be too far away."

"Ms. Sendai, please get back in formation this instant!" Missouri called with an authoritative voice.

"Eh? Oh! Sorry about that, ehehehe~!" Sendai laughed embarrassingly as she slowed down.

"Good." Missouri huffed with a smile, "Now, when did the Admiral say the 2nd fleet are coming again?"

"Seven mikes, due north." Hiei answered, "But that's already been five minutes ago, we should be seeing signs of them by now."

"Hiei! Can you see us?" Kongou's voice erupted from their radios which immediately got Hiei's attention.

"O-onee-sama?! W-where are you?!" Hiei asked, looking from all directions for her Kongou-onee-sama.

"We're coming to your nine o'clock! Can you see us now?" Kongou said.

Turning to where Kongou has told her, she immediately caught sight of the entire 2nd fleet three hundred meters away, "Hai! I can see you!"

Above them, two squadrons of Bf 109T Kai with five planes each squadron droned with ferocity as they joined in the fray, mowing down Abyssal alongside with the Grummans of Enterprise and the Type 0 Fighter Model 21s on the Japanese Carriers. The Bf 109T Kais weren't alone as Hornet's F4F-3 Wildcat Fighters behind Graf's Fighter planes did a dive strafe on a number of Abyssal planes shooting down more planes as the sky is littered with planes bordering almost to a hundred from all four fleets present.

"Yo, Mo! Wassup?" Iowa waved to her sister as they moved as fast they all can, shooting down Abyssal ships left and right with AP shells from their 14" 15" 16" guns.

"I'm doing fine, Iowa." Missouri nods to her sister as they finally closed in, "How was your side of the mission?"

"We basically blew the Abyssals apart from behind." Iowa grinned naughtily with a wink, sending double meaning messages to her sister who glared at her.

"Very funny, Iowa. Very funny."

"Oh, you're finally here, Tirpitz?" Bismarck stated more than asked as the 1st fleet sailed alongside them.

"Ja, we've taken the extra time to take utter good care of our opponents while we were at it." Tirpitz nodded at Bismarck, her uniform and guns covered in soot from all the planes they had to shoot down and all the close calls they had to dodge.

"That is very good to hear. Anyhow, the Admiral has ordered us to end this mission as soon as possible. I believe we've already spent enough resources waiting for everybody to get here." Bismarck says as they all watched the Armored Carrier Hime struggle to stand.

Gripping her fists, the Abyssal Armored Carrier Hime roars as she launched more planes in the air as blood dripped from the side of her head, anger clearly etched to her face.

"YOU WILL ALL DIE! ! ! !"

"You first!" Hornet shot back as she had her F4F-3 Wildcats gun-down as much planes that the Armored Carrier Hime is releasing before making their way back to Hornet after having spent all their ammunition, "How'd ya like that, huh?!"

"Graf! Hornet! Rendezvous with the Carriers and provide Anti-Air fire and strategic airstrikes! Help them take out as many planes as you can!" Tirpitz ordered as they sailed to a stop in front of the other fleets.

"Jawohl! Frau Hornet, let's go at once!" Graf nodded to their flagship before sailing way with Hornet not far behind.

"Lead the way!" Hornet replied as Graf's Bf 109Ts provided them with air-cover while Hornet's DB squadron struck a Ri-class Cruiser setting said Cruiser on fire, "Gotcha, bitch!"

Skidding to a stop in front of Akagi, Graf nods at the other Carriers present while Hornet waved coolly, grinning like it's her birthday today.

"Wassup!"

"We've arrived." Graf says as a squad of her Bf 109T returned for refueling and rearming.

"Just in time too," Akagi smiled at the two while Enterprise high-fived her sister, "We are just waiting for Teitoku's go-signal to attack the Abyssal Hime."

"Good work, out there, you two." Enterprise grinned.

"It was nothing really." Hornet waves, grinning as her faces burned a bit from how caring Enterprise is to her, "I was just doing my job."

"Sick kill, Hornet-san." Zuikaku complimented as she watched the Ri-class' deck armor and guns burn with content.

"Thanks." Hornet grins.

"We should get back to our mission at hand." Kaga says, her cool head and finesse in the art of Carrier launching being a sight to see.

"Hai, we need to finish that Armored Carrier Hime before she regains her air wing once again!" Akagi agrees as she recalled all her planes to refuel and rearm, "Everyone, recall your planes and refuel and rearm. We must end this in one strike!"

"Hai!"

"Roger that!"

"Jawohl!"

"Yamato-san, we must end this, now!" Akagi calls her flagship who replies not a second later.

"Hai, Akagi-san." Yamato replied, her guns all loaded Type 3 shells along with Mutsu, "Mutsu-san, ready?"

"Hai~. As ready as I'll ever be, Yamato-san~." Mutsu smiled at her flagship as they turned their heads up, "All main guns, maximum elevation!"

"Wait for my command!" Yamato orders her fleet as her guns turned and raised all barrels towards the air.

Not far up from them, planes after planes flew into the air courtesy of the Armored Carrier Hime who wanted nothing but to kill all the shipgirls in sight brutally as she gritted her teeth. Summoning all her remaining planes from her last hangar, the Abyssal Hime suddenly laughed manically, all sanity having left her, as blood dripped all over her from all the injuries she's taken, take into account that she's barely touched her enemies other than a few planes here and there and a single bomb hit.

"Hahahahaha! ! ! !" she laughed and laughed, "You will… all DIE! ! ! !"

With a simple flick of her hand, all planes she's summoned, one that easily dwarfed the planes all four fleets could produce attacked. Their loud engines droning loudly on the night as their pale white finish made them all appear like one single and massive cloud has just decided to fall on them.

Not to be outdone, all Carriers present held their Fighters at the ready as Mutsu and Yamato primed their Type 3 shells to detonate in a second they are fired.

"Main guns…" Yamato inhaled as the Abyssal Fighters drew closer by the second, "FIRE! ! !"

With a single command, all the gun fairies of Yamato and Mutsu did as they are told and fired all seventeen guns which roared with the force of a thunderclap that could be heard from hundreds of meters away as seventeen Type 3 shells flew to the air, passing the Abyssal planes in the front and detonating right in the middle, cleaving the Armored Carrier Hime's air wing a massive number of planes as metal shrapnels were sent on all directions. Down below, the Armored Carrier watched with wide eyes as she watched almost half of her planes were instantaneously wiped out of the air and those that were not killed outright immediately started opening fire on the shipgirls with their 7.62mm machine guns which caused most of them to cover their faces or bodies as bullets bounced off painfully on them.

"Kyaah! ! !" the Destroyers screamed in pain.

"Fletcher!" Iowa yelled in frantic as Fletcher did her best to shoot down planes as she was shot back by those pesky bastards.

"Everyone, take cover!" Missouri yelled as the Battleships started opening fire with their AA-guns, "Let 'em have it!"

"All Carriers, launch all available aircraft!" Akagi ordered as all of them sent squadron after squadron in the air to help repel the remaining Abyssal planes Yamato and Mutsu were not able to kill.

"There's too many of them!" Zuikaku yelled in distress as she fired another Squadron in the air, watching at the first squad she sent in the air get gunned down from the sheer number of bullets being thrown everywhere, "Noooo! ! !"

"Keep launching!" Enterprise screamed as her AA-guns did their best to fight back along with the Battleships that are taking the brunt of the damages as bombs dropped everywhere.

"Shit!" Kongou cursed as she glared at the planes flying everywhere, "Teitoku, requesting aerial support. Over!"

"Roger that! Five seconds!" Jason said from the other side.

Exactly five seconds later, ten Hellstorm missiles came screeching in before unloading its payload which when on all direction where the Abyssal planes are the most. Seeking out those places, forty mini-warheads exploded in the sky creating forty mini-suns from the power they have as they blew more of the Abyssal planes to give the Carriers some breathing space to launch their planes.

Rotating their guns around, all the Battleships glared at the Armored Carrier who has completely lost it as she laughed and laughed as planes after planes from all sides fell from the sky.

"We need to put that crazy dummkopf down, now!" Tirpitz yelled.

"Ja!"

"DIE! ! ! ALL OF YOU, MOGRELS, JUST DIE! ! !" the Armored Carrier Hime yelled as she aimed her 16" guns at random shipgirls before firing them all.

"Hyaah!" Tirpitz and Bismarck screamed after they were hit on the arm and chest respectively.

"That bitch!" Iowa growled as she fired nine AP shells at the Armored Carrier Hime who turned her attention to her, "Eat this!"

Sailing to the two German Battleships, whom has fallen to their knees holding their respective wounds, Prinz Eugen waste no time as she sent engineer fairies to help with the healing. Behind her, all the shipgirls started firing back at the Abyssal Hime in retribution and to cover her as she did her job of taking care of her sisters.

"Bismarck-onee-sama! Tirpitz-onee-sama! Hang in there, it will be all alright!" Prinz said frantically as she wiped her tears from her eyes.

Coughing a bit of blood, Bismarck winces as she rubbed the spot where the large shell has landed. Inhaling fresh and salty wind, Bismarck grins as she stood up as if nothing has happened, wiping the blood from the side of her mouth as Prinz stared at her. Turning to her sister, Bismarck offered Tirpitz a hand who gladly took it before hauling her sister up.

"Si-sister," Tirpitz wheezed from the pain, "… that harlot-looking witch really needs to learn her lessons…"

"Ja…" chuckling a bit, Bismarck patted Prinz in her hat-covered head as she glared and grinned at the same time towards the Abyssal Hime who was being lit up by numerous gunfire, "… Let's make repay her back."

"Bist du in Ordnung?" Prinz asks in worry as she eyed the blood running down on her adopted-sisters' wounds.

"This is nothing but a scratch, Prinz." Tirpitz smiled at her little sister, "Nothing we Battleships can't take."

"Yes, what she said." Bismarck added as she exhaled slowly, "Now, let us rejoin our comrades in the fight. I'm itching for round two."

"J-ja!" Prinz said as her four guns clicked as fresh shells were loaded, "Lets!"

"Can you two still fight?!" Yamato asked before getting pinged in the side of the head by an Abyssal plane who must have balls of steel to do that because not a second later, Yamato merely clicked her tongue in annoyance before having her AA guns focus in the bastard ripping them to small bits, "Scum…"

"'Tis nothing but a scratch, Frau Yamato. Do not worry yourself." Bismarck said as she gave the wound one last rub, "Now let's beat that bitch to submission!"

"Hai!" Yamato nodded before turning ahead as the Germans sailed next to her.

Looking both left and right, she stared as her fellow shipgirls held their positions vigilantly with dignity and strength. Snapping her eyes at the Armored Carrier who was just fired her guns and scored another hit, now both on Kongou and Haruna who was not very happy on getting shot at. Glaring at her, which the Armored Carrier must have felt as she too glared back at Yamato with the same intensity as more Abyssal ships appeared from the depths of the sea behind her, ready for combat. Inhaling deeply, Yamato exhaled slowly as her guns finally reloaded, multiple droning sounds of the engines of all their Carriers and the Abyssal planes above them as they gunned down each other.

"Charge! ! !"

With al powerful command from her set of powerful lungs and vocal cord, all the shipgirls with offensive capabilities attacked, their guns never silencing for more than a second before going off again and again.

"ATTACK! ! !" the Armored Carrier Hime commanded as her Abyssal ships exploded forward, moving to intercept the shipgirls while the remaining planes she had duked it out in the air.

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December 11, 2020;
Admiral's office;
Admiral Jason and Co.;
Debriefing;
Time: 16:36:14hrs;

"So, let me get this straight," Jason says as he leaned forward on his hands for the last five hours or so, "… after dropping in your LZ, the 1st fleet, commanded by Bismarck, immediately located your targets and engaged them, killing them all within in a span of twenty minutes. Am I correct?"

"Ja, Admiral." Bismarck replied confidently, "That is correct, sir."

"Okay, At ease, Bismarck. Then, moving to the next fleet, "staring at Tirpitz straight in the eye, watching as said Battleship gulped loudly, he said, "after getting dropped off, enemy air spotted you and engaged you lot. Fortunately, none of you suffered any casualties early in the game and you managed to put down all the planes before they could even return back. After that, you headed to your target A.O. and finished your mission. Did I get it right?"

"S-sir, yes, sir!" Tirpitz nodded.

"Very good. Everything sounds great so far." Jason nods in satisfaction, "Up next, the 3rd fleet. Missouri, you said that you were all dropped off a bit away from you're A.O. because of intense Abyssal AA-fire but managed to get back on track. After that, you engaged your targets away from said A.O. within in the span of half an hour. After taking out all of them, your fleet proceeded to head to your target A.O. to look for anything worth taking but found nothing. Did I get everything right?"

"Spot on, sir." Missouri nods with a satisfied grin after Jason had each shipgirl reported for an hour each before taking a small break to eat lunch.

"Good, now to the last but not the least, 4th fleet." Jason turned to Yamato who stood straight as a rod, "After you girls left, you were given air-cover by the 1st fleet as your ride dropped you all in, after that, you all engaged the Armored Carrier Hime while taking some damages along the way. You did good out there, Yamato. And with the fact that all of you, flagships, having needed to pitch in as well since all of you were present when they engaged the enemies, I'm very proud."

"H-hai!" Yamato stuttered, growing very embarrassed from being praised alongside of her sisters-in-arms.

Standing up from his chair, Jason stretched his arms and his back before turning his head to his watch,
I guess it's time for me to do my end of the bargain."

"… bargain…?" Tirpitz asked in confusion which was mirrored by her fellow flagships.

"Yep, promised Ikazuchi I'll be cooking tonight." Jason grinned as he walked to the door, "Besides, think of this as my own way of saying good work."

"Eh? B-but y-you don't have to, Teitoku!" Yamato said, staring at Jason in shock as he passed her, "L-let I, Yamato, do the cooking, please?"

"No need, Yamato, besides, I don't break my word." Jason grinned as he opened the door, "After you, ladies."

"My~. Aren't you quite the charmer~." Bismarck giggled as she passed him by the door.

"If I'm quite the charmer you said I am, them by the end of this night, consider yourself charmed by my cooking." Jason chuckled.

"What would you be cooking, Admiral?" Tirpitz asked as she exited the door, standing next to her sister.

"S~E~C~R~E~T~!" Jason playfully winked at her, "It would do no good if I just tell you now, would it?"

"M-maybe not…" Tirpitz agreed as her face burned from Jason's flirty acts.

"Are you sure you don't want me to cook, Teitoku?" Yamato asked one more time.

Smiling at her, for her persistence, Jason laid his hand on top of her head and rubbed it, something Yamato found herself enjoying and said, "If you are asking so insistently, them why don't you help me cook, then? I was planning on asking Houshou help me anyway."

"I would be honored, Teitoku…" Yamato said, feeling a bit disappointed after Jason withdrew his hand from her head.

"Good. Kushina. Rafael. Nagato. Saber. Let's go." Jason said to the other occupants of the room as he raised Yato so that his son could sit on his shoulders, "Let's go, Yato?"

"Hai, Tou~chan!" Yato cheered.

"Mito should be done by now." Kushina said as they all started walking towards the kitchen.

"She should be." Rafael yawned as he massaged his injury that Kushina has whole-heartedly inflicted, "Those seals might be high-level ones if she's taken this long to set them all up."

"I wouldn't be surprised if she chose to put high-level ones, after all, I did ask her to make sure our friend won't get any funny ideas." Jason said.

"I wonder what you meant by high-level seals, Teitoku." Saber said, her voice full of genuine curiosity as she walked beside him.

"You'll soon find out tomorrow, Saber." Jason grinned at his subordinate.

"Hey, Jay…"

"Hmm…?"

"Wanna spar tomorrow? You know, before you greet our nice friend and for old times' sake?" Rafael asked as they turned left, walking in the hallway leading to the cafeteria.

"Sure," Jason said as he adjusted his hold on Yato who squealed in delight, "I thought you'd never ask."

Grinning at his friend's reply, Rafael nodded in satisfaction, "It's on, then."

"It sure is."

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So, until next time!

Out!