I originally got this idea for a Opposing forces-type story where we were the villains rather than the heros because of bad pasts. And us becoming enraged and angry at the world and deciding to go siren for retribution against everyone. Unfortunately, delays and crap happening meant we were unable to complete this story by the start of 2021 and ultimately. This incomplete story got put on infinite hold!
Don't expect the editing to be too good. This was left unfinished, Also. There are elements of Half life's intro chapter and CDDA stuff. Based on Tsunami the flash game. Also warnings for hatred against all of humanity, disgust at everyone other than fellow shipgirls. Offensive realism (though not much) and Dark magical girl tendencies. Mentioned slight body modification. SirenZ35 and Sirenzon who ultimately led to the downfall of Azur lane. Demo story.
The full Black Shift story is planned to come out at some point! Choose as to who you want me and my co-op friend to be! Am I Z35? Denver? Leander (Worcester)?
If Amazon comes back. I will probably resume this story.
Azur Lane:Black Shift Level One
OST:Hazardous Environments
"Hey, I didn't see you get on.."
I shut that voice out from a random passenger-A Siren Tactical Doll/Bulin-type demilitarized destroyer as i took a look at the girl next to me before taking a glance out at the scenery.
Location:CLASSIFIED
I felt the gas-turbine powered train take a turn. forcing me to adjust my shirt as i looked at the girl in question. A clear combination of an open jacket and a cape, a slight dull red from inside with a silky black on the outside, a clear yellow stripe outline going around the cape a tiny bit away from the edges, bordering on barely scraping the very tip at the front of her torso. It seemed neatly kept on her thanks to the yellow buttons on her shoulders as well as a total of 12 more traditional buttons below them that were clearly placed out at the sides of the torso, the 2nd pair having 2 small glass discs in frames, similar to monocles, resting on the display of black & red with what appeared to be tie-backs dangling from the discs as golden lace kept the two sides of the open jacket portion neatly together.
"Amazon? I know it may have been tough after these times but..."
I kept my words as i was trying to think up of something, I was dressed in a grey sleeveless shirt that exposed my belly, Arm sleeves that still left of my features exposed. long black stocs that extended all the way up to my black miniskirt with a hat on my head and a pink headband and what looks like a Iron cross on my neck, the left side of my hair was tied into a small ponytail. However, at the tips of my hair. they were white-a hint of modifications to me that i rather not talk about... Although my eyes still looked purple.
"William. Please... If there's something troubling you, You can talk to me.."
Amazon finally spoke back, her eyes perking up to me.
Amazon:"So what's the mission?"
Being a bit taken back, I decided that there was something strange about why we were called here. It had been some time since my last counter-insurgency assignment and reprisal. So why would they want to pull me out of reserve duty?
"I am not sure... It's strange why they wanted us again.." I put my hand on my neck as I tried to understand the reasons behind this.
"You know, Amazon... I've been thinking twice about continuing my singing and dancing career. It's taking a lot of my time, especially when we keep getting called up to deal with some infamous shipgirls of for Frontier defense..."
If i looked at Amazon right now, she had a black jacket with a white shirt and a black skirt with yellow frills. as well as some kind of Black cape with a secondary yellow color and black stockings with the left side having the 'D39' symbol and blonde hair tied up into twintails, however like me they were white at the tips to and there was a yellow lightning bolt hairpin. And where the anchor symbols would be on her gloves, There were yellow lightning symbols on the center of the anchor symbols. a sign of the modifications to her...
Too much like Kancolle's Ikazuchi. and in a painfully reminding way.
Amazon:"Well whatever it is, we'd be well to stay ready for potential combat." She wasn't wrong. If one were dealing with a unconventional enemy using explosives. You would be getting attacked from all directions, not just from the front!
Again taken back a bit, I talked back as i knew we were nearing some kind of underground complex.
"You didn't answer my question but hey..." Soon the train took a turn underground and with time i heard a intercom.
Intercom:...s maintained at 24C at all times, if you wish to access high security areas. Please present your clearance and ship identification.
As the PA system put out its messages, I looked out. There were multiple girls probably involved in R&D and as we passed by, I heard something from someone about continuing problems with Jet engines for aircraft. I knew the Gas turbine train was nearing where we were headed. But at some point i saw someone... Akashi,
She was working as maintenance, Her expression was that of a depressed resignment... Almost like... I remembered rampaging and tearing apart half of the Sakura empire's shipgirls at the time of their downfall... And she was there to watch it all.
Looking back toward Amazon, I stared at her. "Whatever 'she' has us called here for. Its probably urgent..."
Amazon:"More than likely." She crossed her arms, which gave me a idea...
"Hmm.." Deciding to act on my idea, i 'special touch' her... In the form of grabbing her flat chest.
Amazon:"E-eh! W-what do you think you're doing?!" She turned flushed red. Of course i had to keep my expectations low...
"Why do I have a bigger chest anyway!?" I tried to joke very poorly with her, even though it was likely someone noticed what i was doing. For a destroyer I sure did have a big chest. some would say even more than Z23's.
Amazon:"C-chest size doesn't matter..!" The last part was slightly muffled. How cute from my friend!
"Doesn't matter~?" I teased her on that despite my... attractive choice of clothing. given my exposed belly and my uncanny resemblance to Shimamura Uzuki.
"But seriously, I never really thought we be getting called here for something urgent. i thought we sunk one of the insurgent's most valuable submarines?" That was Balao in question, I didn't bother to go into trying to figure out what she was doing. But a few attack runs with Mark 37 torpedoes. hedgehogs and depth charges had finished her off in record time.
Insurgency was still a problem given the chaotic conditions of the world, then again with literally most of the planet's people gone. What with the haber-bosch process, collapse of infrastructure and the end of warehouse deliveries to the cities. of course there had to be feelings of anger toward the occupying powers..
While we were still great at our jobs, It was clear that we would soon have to deal with them rapidly. Azur lane was still out there even though they had been crushed conventionally. and they were still operating in cells, That I knew for sure.
"Well, best look good for this.. hey.. by the way, Amazon. did you design the whole AI for this facility?" All I only got was a stare which made me sigh as I stretched and leaned back in my seat.
"Hey.. get up, we better not miss the performance of why we are even here!" Not getting any response, I waited as i thought about my hobby of being a Idol...
Information:
Amazon Declassified Name:Will**** *****
Education:US High school, Incomplete degree
Position:High Risk counter-insurgency Special operator, Systems Engineer.
Magical girl Assignment:CLASSIFIED
Clearance:Sensitive Compartmented Information SCI
Useless information:HMS Amazon is a Magical Patron Shipgirl that breathes water, eats food and walks on two shafts. Also known for sinking HMS Vanguard. Gentler and less brutal than Z35.
Frontier Defense priority:Discretionary
"Come onnn! Idols don't wait and our superiors don't either!
Information:Z35
Declassified Name:Ti ** **
Education:Elementary student, Grade School dropout
Position:High Risk counter-insurgency Special operator,Struggling Magical Girl idol
Assignment:CLASSIFIED
Clearance:Sensitive Compartmented Information SCI
Useless information:Z35 is Infamously known for sinking Yamato and Musashi by aircraft. Also caused the Reprisal of Hong kong and Australia that led to the death of over 98% of their residents and insurgents. Human and shipgirls in Enemy-centric counter insurgency operations.
Frontier Defense Priority:Discretionary
I actually grab Amazon's jacket as i looked a lot like.. Shimamura Uzuki from Idolmaster without my hat. The only thing missing was my eye color.
Amazon:"A-alright! I'll let you go this once so let's get a move on.." The tsundere side of her becoming more important as she crossed her arms and bit her lip. I was a tsundere myself but not to the same degree my online human and in-person shipgirl friend was. I still found it cute and appealing to me though.
Eventually the train comes to a halt and the doors open as a security shipgirl comes over to us.
Security shipgirl 1:"Amazon and Z35! You two look like lovebirds with these expressions on your faces."
"Well, aren't you observant..." I narrow one of my eyebrows at her remark as when it came to this sort of things, our relationship was something I tried to keep wrapped under and not spoken of.
Amazon:"I-it's nothing." She said trying her best to return to a more professional attitude but failing slightly as a slight red blush remained.
"Is that so~?/Sonanoka~?" I had became teasing toward her, granted during our... Early time here in this world all we had was each other...
That idol smile of mine was appearing again on my expression, All she did was avert her gaze and blush a bit harder.
Chuckling, The security girl just smiled gently. Security shipgirl:"Heh... Anyway, I am sure 'she' is waiting for you down here, don't keep her waiting!"
"Right~, right.." I walked out as I brushed my hair and took a look around. Amazon followed next to me, her blush eventually fading as we walked.
We navigated the platform before arriving up to the Main desk regarding Frontier defense of our.. New home, There were a few Siren demilitarized shipgirls with one of them sitting on a chair and the other looking down at the computer the sitting shipgirl was Interacting with, There was a Display of some kind giving a view of the region we were in along with Red dots indicating Insurgency activity and a sign above that reads "STRATEGIC NETWORKED DEFENSE AND RESEARCH FACILITY".
I walked up to the front desk, Intending to find out why i was called here along with Amazon.
"Sorry for being late! We didn't even expect to be summoned here." I put my hands on the desk as I leaned forward a bit. curious as to what had gotten her worked up.
Security shipgirl 2:"Hey there. Z35 and Amazon! I had some messages for you, but then my damn PC crashed. I can't let this PC run slow and I am still trying to find my files..."
Amazon:"Were they important? If so I could have a look at it later." IT tech support was not something i was good in, but in contrast my friend was still more experienced even though I had plenty of time to close the skill gap.
Security Shipgirl 2:"They seemed important from what i seen, so i wouldn't forget about them! Anyway. Observer wants you down there. you should go!"
"We be going there then... Can't believe these Insurgents are still going on after this long." I thought sadly about what happened to Yamato or Bismarck... But in the end, They were just pawns of the world status quo. Nothing more.
"Amazon, Don't keep her waiting.. you know how crazy she can be." I tried to egg my friend on as I didn't dare refer to this specific superior by name.
Amazon:"Right, well I'll be back later in that case."
"Let's get going, too!" We headed down the corriders. We ran into another shipgirl, specifically a Heavy cruiser of some kind. The one that had been fitted lately with prototype cruise missiles for precision strikes.
Unidentified Shipgirl:"Oh, Its the two famous destroyers! Amazon! Z35!"
"Not much, a computer crash back there prevented us from reading some messages which apparently were important." Even when the world had turned into a post-collapse semi-hell that looked like it came straight out of Half life two. Electronics were still important.
Unidentified shipgirl:"For something so important?"
Amazon:"I guess so, I'm going to come back to fix the computer later."
Unidentified Shipgirl:"Paying attention to why you were being called down here? I know something you don't."
"Knowing as in...?" I let my voice trail off. What had made her behave like that?
Unidentified Shipgirl:"I Found your records, Apparently you were the one who sunk Musashi and Yamato and you. Amazon was the one who sunk Vanguard, You also both used to be Special operators tasked with eliminating some of the most dangerous shipgirls out there."
Letting a grin come to my face. I smiled and spoke with a confident tone. Air power was something I was still very good in even if i didn't view it as somewhat important in World war 2 if competent AAA artillery was around."Well what did you expect from my Attack aircraft~?"
"Anyway, let's go on! There has to be a reason they called us for something so specific!" I would have loved to fool around more but alas. I didn't want to be late.
Unidentified shipgirl:"Well, do well! I can't imagine them lasting long against the both of you."
Amazon smirked, Amazon:"Not any longer than a few seconds!" she remarked as she continued walking on with me.
Unidentified shipgirl:"Haha! Not even the super battleships did much against your jets!" She laughs as we both head on. We walk down the hallway which now branches off into left and right as two siren girls are talking.
Siren shipgirl 1:"Yeah yeah, we've been seeing a increase in insurgency activity as of lately.."
Siren shipgirl 2:"I thought our dream pair wiped out the bulk of their power projection and their symbols with their technology?"
Siren shipgirl 1:"Yes, but they are hidden in the form of underground cells.. What are we supposed to do? ask our ace to drop a Laser-guided bomb on a random house in the middle of nowhere?"
Laser guided bombs... Now that was familiar to me indeed, with the massive storage of a shipgirl's stores we had plenty of PGMs that i would only have imagined, of course i did save them up. only using them for high-risk targets of precious units like carriers of something important.
As i looked around, to my left would be Command and Control, to my right were the offices and the kitchen and the bathrooms and to our front would be where our meeting was to take place. "I still don't believe we wield the equipment of the military industry... And i thought these sort of fanfics... were for modern ships getting stuck and having to help the shipgirls out." I just sighed as even if you are on the Siren's side. office work was still a thing apparently.
I began to become terribly hungry however as i saw a pizza vending machine and already i was getting very hungry for potato waffles of chicken white mushroom soup of creamy white corn soup. All of this made me aware of my newfound hunger.
"I am very hungry!" I began to pace around as tasty food was one of the things that tended to make me energetic.
Amazon:" Why not get some food then? There's plenty of vending machines around." Wanting to go tsundere-tsundere but holding myself back from doing something stupid. I just pouted back a bit.
"But i like meat white soup like what they served at pizza hut..." I huffed back as I never stopped with my pacing. looking down at the floor.
Amazon:"Can't always be super picky ya' know." She said with a little bit of a huff to which I was a bit internally unhappy with. I just only groaned as i selected a meat pizza that i could always eat later and i stood around.
After I got my pizza Amazon leaned on one of the vending machines, crossed her arms and said "So what now?"
"We should head to where they want us, Can't imagine this is typical!" I wanted to eat but i knew we should not keep them waiting.
Amazon:"Let's get going then!" She said as she pushed herself off the machine.
Ignoring the girls i walked on toward my destination. taking a turn toward the offices and not paying attention to the chatter before we took a elevator down We both noticed there were two girls who were talking with each other.
Siren Shipgirl 1:"I can't believe we've trying to keep infrastructure from falling apart even though we should be done with them by now!"
Siren Shipgirl 2:"What? do you want them to cause a massive insurgency? Besides, we've still increasing our numbers!"
Siren shipgirl 1:"Oh, sure! Both sides don't trust each other. and i sure as hell imagine they don't feel safe in their camps either!"
I sigh as we keep walking and someone moves up to us. Siren shipgirl 3:"They are waiting for you there in the command room." Something feels off about this.
I looked back at the blonde-haired destroyer waiting for a answer as i wasn't sure what to say.
"Well.. I... disregard what i was going to say."
We continued on navigating this maze before arriving at our destination-A large command room with a skilled looking shipgirl on the other end of this room.
"I see you wanted us here for a reason?"
Misaki:"Yes... By the way, Call me Misaki."
I sat down as i wanted to start eating. "Uh, Amazon.. you may want to listen to what she has to say..."
Main Command center, Estimated 6 years after the War
Misaki:"As you may know, recently we've been detecting a increase in Resistance activity, and we have been having all sorts of problems from that even with the two of you.
We've uncovered data that indicates one of their agents may be trying to target our research facilities, Which tests the latest cutting edge in science with what we know. You, Z35 and Amazon. are being sent for Counter-insurgency to disrupt whatever they are up to before any real damage is done.
We will guide you to where we suspect one of their shipgirls may know what lab is being targeted, After that. you are on your own.
Now some classified stuff, One of our labs are working on "4AXT", Fourth Axis Technology. This we believe may be the main motive of the Insurgents, with that power they may become unstoppable. If they try to do something. Follow them, its a risk we have to take."
"4th Axis technology?" I muttered out. Now Classified technology was involved?
Misaki:"I can't exactly say much, other than it appears to be highly secret and that it may change the world forever."
"Whatever has them all on the move, It has to be important... 4AXT has to be. right?"
Misaki:"Yeah, Thats why we are sending the twin aces-You and Amazon out, We believe Baltimore may be their team leader if they ever do attempt to break into the 4AXT lab. Even if she has lost most of her hull, she can still be deadly with these wrist-mounted autocannons. So be careful."
Author's note:Well. This is the incomplete story. I am still planning for a full version of Black shift to come out at some point! Am I Z35? Denver? Leander? Is my friend HMS Malaya. Onyx (post-war submarine). Enterprise, Mutsuki? Kent? Leave it in the reviews for who you want me and my supporting friend to be!
Be warned, There will be corruption. mindbreak. attacking civilian ships and killing their occupants, Offensive realism. Massacres (Such as attacking refugee convoys). Declassification of our real data. Shipgirls getting killed, Dark magical girl temptations. rage against the world. Mentions of forbidden topics. Covert terror attacks on airports. schools and power grids. Loli on Okaa action wartime romance. And far more stuff!
Hope you left a review and favorite. You Shimamura Uzuki/Tsundere Loli destroyer fan! (Evil shimamura uzuki facepng)
Our weapons were as follows:
Z35:5x Mark 42 127mm single Autoloading guns.(Precision Guided capability with active radar homing possible) 4x quad Remote controlled Bofors L/70s. 12x Twin 20mm M39 Remote-controlled guns. 2x quad 610mm tubes. 1x RUR-4 Weapon Alpha and Depth charges as standard. 2x ASW triple tubes. 60 Aircraft made up of F11B Super Tigers. A-7Es. XA2Js. Several Apache attack helicopters modified with sonobuoy ejectors or radar pod pylons for backup in addition to a few SH-60s. 8x P-15 Termits (External reloading) and 4x Exocets tubes. 2x Rapier/Seawolf and 1x GWS 24 Missile systems. RADARs were not specified. but would probably have been the APAR plus 2 RTN-10X gun Radars and a SPS-55. Towed Sonar available.
Amazon:4x 127mm QF Mark N2 guns. 4x 40mm Bofors L/70s (completely automated with autofeeding/remote controlled. Fires 3P rounds) 8x twin remote-controlled M230 30mm autocannons on GCM mounts and some form of Ka-band radar. 2x triple 533mm tubes and 2x 480mm triple tubes launching Mark 37s. 1x ASROC system. Hedgehog and Depth charges as standard. carries MM40 Block 2 exocets in 8 tubes with 'external' reloading. 4x Rapier Blindfire/Sea Sparrow SAM systems and unusually enough a RIM-66M Launcher. RADARs were likely to be the SMART-L. Oddly enough a Nebo AESA VHF Counterstealth/Search RADAR. 1x Type 1047 surface search RADAR. 1x 92N6E Russian missile engagement RADAR. 1x Zhuk-M Gun control/Backup Missile radar.
Aircraft loadout:48 aircraft made up of G-118 (XF12Fs) with Canards and LERX modification (F-5E) OF Saab Viggens (4x guns version)and Ya-7F Strikefighters (Canard too) or EA-6B Growlers (also acting as torpedo bombers) All aircraft take advantage of Arcane lift enhancement based on blown flap/plasma lift principles to use armor plating.