This story was the result of me RPing with Shurai who was planned to appear in Tricolore of the stars. mainly to produce one of my 'specials' using a dual self-insert. however we kept going at it for a few days and it almost had grown into a oneshot by its own as I had to finish the end scene on my own. This follows the adventure of a Destroyer and a battleship. How they interact with each other like they once did as internet friends and as shipgirls only having each other for their deepest secrets.
Today's simple, Yet horrifying pr0nz:A self inserted Kiyonami gets it on with a Gay futanari self-insert Richelieu and her 15-inch crotch mounted gun. No. we are not letting you walk out of this one. Reader!
Warning for Futanari, Lolidom. Submissive battleship. Destroyercon. Some inflation. Me almost going dark alter. A battle scene and Loli x Ara Ara. Okaacon. If you want the R-18 scene you should skip to chapter 2. Please leave a review if you enjoyed this memory cube-burning, Highway cookie-like action!
Also for some reason I am missing my rabbit ears even though Kiyonami's art has them hidden. Oversight in RP Lol?
Zzzzzz...
"Mmnnn..zzz..." I softly slept. my chest buried in someone's chest, I whimpered softly as I try to go back to sleep. While I did hate having to wake up quick, it was made more bearable when someone close to me slept together with me as I began to wake up.
As a few rays of light pass through the battleship's eyes. She started to wake up. It was Richelieu, However it was my friend. Shura in her body who also came with most of my powers. I was in Kiyonami's body. Why. you may guess? Apparently I ended up in Azur lane as a Anti-aircraft missile gun destroyer, However this time I had someone to make the burden easier for me... Someone. who i loved to roleplay with.
I whined more softly, I didn't really want to wake up right now. but I found her magic signature too comforting as I began to rub my head in her chest softly, letting out a soft groan as I felt Richelieu starting to move.
She softly caressed my brown hair. Despite the both of us being boys, She was... still admittingly gentle for a battleship, Even if Shura used to RP as Kancolle and a few of the Azur lane girls, most notably the Iris libre. "Come on, it's time to wake up."
I groaned as I tried to hug her tighter. "O-One more hour please~..." I seem to be behaving like a child who doesnt want school right now, that was ironic given my history...
"You know very well we don't have that much time." The battleship replied as she seemed to be fully awake while I was still shaking off the feeling of being sleepy.
"Fineeee..." However. I walk back on my words by refusing to let go of you as I try to pout sleepily. It seemed I was that sleepy right now and I was still the good old lazy boy who just wanted to enjoy things. Even if i was a Sakura empire destroyer.
Richelieu started getting up, forcing me to also get up as I pout. sleepily stretching and I softly yawn as I stared back cutely at her. "I-I am up~"
"See, you could do it, it was not so hard after all" Well, Shura/Richelieu was right about that. I could force myself awake if i wanted to and I sometimes did do that when things were urgent, but most of the time? I preferred oversleeping. "Heyyy... Y-you know I like to sleep a lot and your big chest is nice..."
"Come on... I want you to tie up my hair!" My face turned into a cute disarming look as I stared at her eyes, These... sparkling... violet eyes of hers. The same one who had comforted me, who i had laughed with and who i had been close to ever since we came to the Azur lane world...
"Fine, I'll tie up your hair, come here." Hearing what she said. I crawled to her as I laid my head on her big chest. breathing softly as she began tying up my hair into my official art hairstyle. I turn around so she can put on my last red twintail as i smile softly.
"S-So what do we go out for? I wanna go see the sun!" My tone now being more energetic as I was mostly fully awake. The battleship replied quickly as she kept her official... if gentle expression.
"Fine, I guess we do have some time for that, but we have to be quick." She said as I got a bit unhappy at having to be quick about this.
"Awah? W-why?" That was the thing. As Kiyonami i seem to stutter a lot more than I do usually, It likely had something to do with her official quotes and how she was a shy rabbit... Even though strangely I was missing my hidden rabbit ears. Although it could possibly be a side effect of my 'modern' design?
Staring up at her cutely with a confused look. She gave her answer as I sat there like a confused destroyer. "If you want to go see the sun, better not waste time asking why."
"Hmpf! But first! Y-you need to get dressed~" Saying something back a bit playfully. I quickly throw on my official clothes as I end up thinking something dirty about her... But it's quickly squashed out by my desire to start my day.
"Ah right, I almost forgot!" Of course, My friend still was not in her official clothes yet as she started getting herself dressed. With my simpler design however, I already had my clothes on by the time Shura/Richelieu was done with her official dress.
While I slip in a few looks at her. I decided to keep waiting-Sure. I was a lewd destroyer loliboat. BUT not that lewd as i kept myself occupied by thinking things. She knew me well enough to know I liked to do stealth lewd stuff to myself even if she were with me and I was in another room... but that was not important right now. "Awaaaa~..."
She finished getting dressed as she headed back to me. Her standard richelieu expression still there. "So are you ready?"
"M-Mmuhh!" I made some happy loli noises as I hop up to her and took her hand. feeling the size difference as my hand was small. almost fragile compared to a battleship's.
She walked out with me. making our way out of her room as I blinked on seeing the flowers and the trees under the sun as I felt myself hungry. Even as Kiyonami, I still tended to be a picky eater as I always tried to eat creamy butter milk white soup or its chicken variation if possible and I heavily preferred pizza of steak fillets.
"Does Iris libre really get shafted that bad...?" I privately mutter to her, speaking as myself and as not Kiyonami with my deeper boyish tone. I wondered why Ironblood was that popular?
"What do you mean?" Shura/Richelieu replied.
"I mean... Ironblood gets a lot more popularity than Iris libre or the Dominion. I know the faction joined late into the game but you think the Iris libre would be more popular..." That was the thing, Given how the Richelieu class were quite compact for their bulk and how they had a story of their own to tell. Wouldn't they still be more popular than they turned out to be in Azur lane?
"Most people only care for big names and forget everything else." She gave her answer as I pondered what she meant before I found my reply.
"Ironblood was a third-rate naval power and it still is..." I held on tighter to her hand as I seem to be sleepy. I sometimes wondered why they were that popular, Their land armies were first-rate. Air force second rate. Naval power third-rate and underfunded. Wasn't that the reason so many of their shipgirls tended to be prototypes or either hypothetical like Z46?
"Surprisingly enough, their popularity comes from the fact a fair share of people liking them don't know that and think they were a second-rate naval power because of Bismarck and their large U-boat fleet." I agreed with her silently as I was happy and content to be with my friend. It confused me sometimes as to why Ironblood was that popular.
"The one thing they got right was understanding what submarines could and wouldn't do.. But everything else... I-i think i could destroy them all in just a single battle!" I try to say confidently as I trusted my magical powers. Their submarine forces were formidable. But in the end, even it wasn't enough without finding a way to get rid of the constant ASW destroyer construction that Britiain was throwing its money into.
As we walked and I wanted to eat something, I was still a fan of Bismarck. however even I had to say she just wasn't a walking machine of destruction like her and me and without any of my abilities .a single shipgirl like Bismarck was not going to do much in my opinion.
As we kept walking. The battleship appeared to get lost in her thoughts as at the same time, I did find it enjoyable to be spending quiet moments like this instead of yelling at a sibling of mine or insulting someone for no reason as I become relaxed. holding onto her dress.
"Aren't you hungry?" I looked up at her as I nodded.
"A-Ah! Yes i am!" I reply back. "I still love white soup.. of whatever it is!" She had knew me well enough from being one of the few friends I truly considered her close enough for Richelieu to know what I was trying to mean, which meant butter-milk white soup or chicken.
"So butter-milk white soup it is." She chatted back.
The quirk about me was that since I didn't really know too much about a wide range of things. Sort of like Ayanami, I tended to have trouble trying to refer to what foods to eat. One such quirk was me saying 'white' because of malted milk being my favorite. In any case i liked my creamy white soup. of at least the catch-term of it being flour with butter and milk to have LOTs of black pepper. another habit of mine from pizza hut's soup.
"You know I-I like creamy white soup. Richelieu-chan!" As we kept walking, She just gave her answer.
"Let's get your soup now." I made a happy 'yay!' noise as we reached our destination...
And as we arrived and began eating, seeing some unionite and other usual major faction shipgirls. It is clear I LIKE this soup a lot but i do manage to keep my obsession for it under control.
"I remember in my past that pizza hut and restaurant white soup tend to be different from e-each other!" Looking at her briefly i go back to trying to drink up my soup as much as possible-I had wanted so much there were two servings for me to eat alongside my usual french fries and steak fillet food.
"Hey now, take your time, it would be bad if you were to choke on your food." I see Nimi and some of the Royal navy girls here as I was still busy eating.
"Mmnuhh?" I look up at her as I lick off any leftovers and resume drinking with my spoon, clearly liking it.
"Now that's better" Huh, I wanted to say something snarky toward the battleship... But on one hand. She was just concerned for me... It would not be good to insult her. would it?
"H-Hey... Richelieu... How are things... trying to talk to Jean bart?" I have trouble trying to talk as I look to be pressured because of the presence of the girls around me as she struggles to come up with a answer.
"Oh, about that..."
"A-Ah. I won't ask if you don't want to~..." I chew on my french fries as even my body size didn't stop me from trying to stuff in a glass of cola as well. It was a bit surprising how on the internet I was able to type what i was thinking fast. but in a actual talk I had trouble trying to find my words or I had a bad tendency to stutter.
She got back to eating her food as I just kept watching her.
"...Richelieu-chan, We should think about going somewhere.. Somewhere.. Where it's just the two of us~..." That wasn't surprising about me, I found other people to be uninteresting of considered them outright trash. And even when trying as a shipgirl I had trouble trying to form any sort of connections with the girls,
Perhaps it be the resulting trauma of me losing a babysitter who i looked up to or my past that had me injured and abused by a older brother for failing to learn a native language and the resulting counters like me deleting wii's memory. she knew she did know I had a dark side form of me that I could use, but i disliked drawing on it since the risks of my mind being affected and changed were high and since I had you right now, I didn't have any reason to lash out at the world really.
"Are you that uncomfortable? Alright then." I considered nodding but I decided not to... I hadn't travelled to a beach for a long time back in my original world.
"You know we can't talk about our.. second... past!" I try to whisper to her as quietly as i can.
"Yeah I know that." My friend muttered.
"Besides... Y-You know.. Before I met a close friend of mine... I-I had trouble trying to get close to any friends outside of one... A-At times in the back of my mind I thought o-of you like the rest of everyone... a-as trash..." It's obvious I am unnerved trying to say this.
"Let's head back if you want to say more" As she tried to comfort me-of maybe something else. I felt something like... a covering of despair touching me as It welled up within me.
"I-it would be more easier for me there, That's for sure... It's just..."she can feel the dark energy in me. It's like her own but in contrast its... pure distilled despair, rage. hatred. negative emotions. All for how I was left behind in a neoliberal society, me being handed down bad things and my rage against the world for what it did to me.
It's like taint.. but converted into pure energy for my use as the white on my clothes would be black and the pink would be a matching black with the red being more blood-red and my eyes would have no life of color in them.
"It's fine now, you have people caring for you..." She murmured in a comforting tone as if she felt that shift in me.
"I know.. But its just you, For someone like you.. I bet you.. Richelieu-chan.. There are 100 more people who are all robotic work drones, uninteresting. think nothing more than spawn or are sheeple... I want to slaughter them, kill them. sacrifice them on the altar of pain for jeering at me... viewing the workers as trash or proceeding to hike prices to insanity..."
The pure red-dark energy in me gives away as to what i thought about them, In some ways i was even more horrifying-where most tankies may think of revolutions, I had planned to torture them all slowly.. only to heal them and then torture them again, giving them no respite and hunting down my victims to be used for my pain-loving pleasure.
It looks like that i think that its only fitting for thinking of the commoners as garbage and refusing to even help someone or how once they get out of being a embarrassed millionaire, they then began to think of anyone lower as nothing more than living furniture. something i hated them for.
"Mmmuhhhh..." I groan as she see the first signs of my sapphire blue eyes turning a lifeless red and my hair becoming paler. Perhaps if her design courtesy of the game as a cardinal could do something...
"Richelieu-chan...?" As I stop drinking my soup, I look at her closely. one of my eyes already blood-red-black.
"Did your soup turn cold?" She began to look at me closely as she likely felt the change within me.
"U-Um... It still feels hot to the touch..." She can feel the hatred off me still as one of my eyes is a unnatural red color and I am looking for some comfort as I whimper softly. If i had my rabbit ears...
The iris battleship started caressing my hair. trying to calm me down. "You should finish your soup before it gets cold."
"U-Uuaauhh..." I make some noises as I finish my soup and continue chewing on my french fries, but one of my eyes is still a lifeless red.
That was the thing, Whenever my darker side made itself known. I had a tendency to become self-deprecating and bitter. which in turn fed into my darker side and well... I would become prone to cussing and violence for the rest of the day. It wasn't like a Kurome sort of thing but more like how 'clouded' my normal powers and thus in turn my mind was.
One time I had fully activated my darker side to see what would happen and well... Me demolishing all of ironblood and proceeding to call everyone garbage in swear words or just scaring them off by letting them feel my dark energy and even trying to avoid you somewhat had made it known how well that would work out...
"Once you're done eating we can head back" She headpats me. I let out a bit of a surprised noise as even though I did know about headpats... It was still surprising to get one. much less from my friend. I nodded as I begin to eat my fries at a fast rate. not wanting to stay around longer than necessary as I already felt my dark self tugging at my mind
Shura/Richelieu kept headpatting me while waiting for me to finish to which i do so shortly with my fries as while she managed to stop me kurome-ing out, one of my eyes is still crimson red. I probably would need a cuddling session after this... "D-Do we go now? I feel uneasy here..."
"Sure, choose where you want to be and we'll go there" We both got up and left as I felt relieved to be out of here.
Well, That was to be expected given I was sleepy of just wanted to be near her. But we ended up in her room again with a bottle of cola as I was cuddling the Iris battleship. breathing softly. "Mmmnuuhh..." at the least it seemed to be having a effect on my red eye.
She cuddles me as i seem to be happy in her embrace. "Mmnugh...aauhh.." I made more soft loli noises. She see my red eye gradually reverting back to its natural aquamarine blue color as Richelieu/Shura doesn't feel that choking fog of hatred from me anymore and my hair went back to its natural color. It was surprising how much I wanted to be cared for by someone... I was still childish in some situations.
Shura/Richelieu kept cuddling and snuggling with you as I decided to speak up.
"I-I feel much better now... A-auh... Shurai..." I make some happy sounds as I was content to be like this with my head in her chest, Not really caring about anything she might need to do as the Cardinal of the Iris libre.
"Just say so when you feel like you had enough" I didn't want this cuddle session to end. I wanted more!
"Mmuh... I feel like I want to be in this..." As I stretch around, my leg brushes up against your panties as I don't seem aware of what i just did.
"Y-you want to what?" She stuttered a bit there as I am still not aware of the lewd thing i did.
"Uauh? It sounded like you were..." I look up at her as I wonder why she sounded just like that now. It's obvious I had feelings for her despite the tonnage gap and how it was basically a small destroyer being together wtih a big battleship.
"I-is that really what you want?" She still stuttered even as she tried to keep herself composed.
"A-Auh? Shurai? What do you mean?" I look confused as I dont look like i am aware I touched your panties as the Iris woman tried to tell me what she meant.
"Y-you touched my panties so I thought you wanted to..." Now that earned a reaction from me as I widen my eyes a bit.
"Uaauguhhhh? In this time of the day?" I let out a high-pitched surprised voice as I wasn't expecting that. Then again I didn't regard much for room when trying to stretch around to be comfortable. I did come out of a bath naked so why would I be different in that?
"I-I mean..." Whatever she was trying to say was cut off as I began to throw a fit.
"Uaaugh! Baka! Baka baka baka baka..." I stopped as I just pout and try to bury my head back into her soft and big chest. still feeling childish and wanting to continue my fit even If i was naturally shy.
"I-I'm sorry, that's not what I meant" I had no idea if she was trying to apologize or if it was something else as she still had a blush on her face.
"H-Hmpf... I... Geez.. You destroyer... loli...whatever...! Nevermind.. I-it's ironic for me to say that anyway.." I sighed as I kept my hug on her. Truly ironic indeed seeing as I liked other destroyers and small shipgirls. "Y-You know what, we should go somewhere to the beach... y-you know and then do some exercises after that..."
"Are you sure it won't be too crowded for you?" Well, shifting the topic to something else did help relieve the tension in the air from what i did. I thought about my answer...
"A-ah! I forget javelin and.. Nevermind! We can always keep o-our distance from the other girls!" I had never went to the beach that much, Surely something would be differnet this time?
"Then I guess you will be fine if we keep our distances" I assumed she meant to keep our distance from Javelin and the starter squads of any other girls really as I tried to nod.
"M-mmn! I forget I am still new to beachball~" I had never played with these before. I wondered if my destroyer speed would compensate for that?
"I'm not a specially good player but I guess I can be your opponent." Well.. Now that was something, She did have a swimsuit skin. right?
"I wanna cuddle like this for longer though... Your chest's comfortable~..." There i was. shifting back to being lazy again as I wanted to stay like this for longer...
"Alright you can get a few extra cuddles" Hearing her reply. I make more happy noises as I am content to stay like this as she spends a bit more time cuddling with me. Eventually though my laziness has me staying in the cuddle beyond the limits as I don't seem intent on going anywhere soon.
"Come on, get up, do you want to go to the beach or not" That snapped me out of my trance as I realized I still did tell her that i wanted to go there.
"O-oh. Right!" I hastily got up and stood as it was surprising how fast I could get this done if I felt like it, Of course. when i was lazy of wnated to oversleep as usual...
"Let's go now" Getting up, The Cardinal of the Iris libre walked out as I followed her out of the room. "A-ah. You go first~" I pace around cheerfully as there's no sign of any darkness in me just minutes ago. It seems like being with a friend does a lot for my mental health.
"Alright, alright" She started heading outside along with me as I saw the sunlight for the second time this day, already thinking about what activities i could do with Richelieu...
"W-We should go to the beach now already! I can't even remember a time when I went to one before... we became this..." I beamed back as she just replied.
"Let's head there then." Walking there, The sky was clear and bright as always I was very curious. talking when things caught my interest like seeing Javelin trying to cheer up Ayanami or the fletchers playing among with each other.
"R-Richelieu, R-remember when we tried playing games all hyped up on cola and ice cream with pizza?"
"Oh yeah, those were fun times" She seems to remember them fondly as I continue on.
"I remember staying up all night and being stuck in our room for several hours... Ahhhh~" I seem to remember this fondly just like her as I hold her hand happily and i giggle.
I was very good in shooters but bad when it came to imagination in minecraft or art and I tended to be casual. not hyper-competitive.
"Thankfully you still needed to eat, otherwise there would have been no way to get you out" Oh... She remembered that, like how i would spend hours playing for one session on straight.
"Hah! Not like you needed to pray of whatever that is!" I giggle again softly at that as i could truly get immersed and lost in the game for hours on straight to the point of forgetting my shipgirl needs or ignoring Javelin asking me to play with her. We pass by Z23 getting angry at Z1 as my hair flows softly from the wind blowing the sakura petals.
"Even if we overlooked the church duties we would still be assigned to sorties." I decided to think of something random to say, I remembered her superb AA capabilities in World of warships.
"...What's with y-your ultra-modern short range anti air missiles anyway? W-why do you beat a.. AEGIS cruiser in that, Richelieu-chan...?" I pause as I have a thoughtful look "I mean... battleships have these AA cloud bursts but..." I was a Fleet defense Anti air destroyer. but in her case she was a deadly killing machine within the short to medium range band in exchange for no long range SAM options. What was with her having so many short range missiles anyway?
"Battleships are costly capital ships that happen to be easy targets for planes as we don't have a whole dedicated fighter squadron like aircraft carriers do and are not renowned to be exceptionally fast ships, the only one being incredibly fast that I can think of being Georgia." Georgia.. I remembered her ingame character well. That prototype paper abomination ship...
"Wouldn't that be Iowa...? It's strange to think that being given my powers would h-have you on a defensive mindset rather than a offensive one with guided shells..." I end up saying something out of normal as I only realized i was referring to KC iowa after speaking that, Richelieu/Shura doesn't look fazed by this however.
"Iowa is fast, but I can usually keep up with her without trouble, however, I can't keep up with Georgia for long when she starts chasing down the enemy" Huh... I guess that was a Prototype ship thing?
"Oh... right.. I-I forget Iowa i-is not in the game yet... I mean.. At least you have these cheap bombers with that energy flight deck hammerspace of yours for that sort of thing, right? If you can't reach them. just bomb them..." I didn't hold a high view of Air power and still believed in surface ships, though I did acknowledge at least the need to keep enemy aircraft away and I had to admit. blowing up enemies without even giving them a chance of where the attack was coming from did appeal to me.
Of course, with crazy modern rangefinders and if that was not possible. radar moving target indication setting or speed measurement. we were good at guns if it came down to that, Though in exercises i loved to pick off of cripple the capital ships first with bombers before going in to engage destroyers with sheer volume of fire and playing keep-away against torpedo focused shipgirls.
"Yes I do, though I am surprised that with how naval warfare evolved and my configuration that I did not receive a partial remodel to carry standard aircraft" Was she referring to hypothetical plans to convert Jean bart into a Flight deck battleship?
"W-well.. I mean.. there were actual proposals to try turning the richelieus into something similar to the Ises but you know... having a energy flight deck from magical girl powers is much better than losing half of your guns and being vulnerable to hits." I was able to continue on. but we reached our destination.
"A-Ah! there we are!" We arrive at the beach as there's a good deal of girls around who look like they are having fun with each other. Enterprise and Yorktown mixed in along them.
"Well, my main guns are on a single side so I would just lose my secondary armament. Oh, we're finally there, so what do you want to do first?" The Iris libre battleship asked me as I began thinking.
"Well... I would like to play beachball and relax after that... there are some things i want to talk about..." I lose my pantyhose. boots and jacket along with my skirt and finally my shirt leaving me in just my bra and panties. I did... look cute. However I stay close to her and I try to tease her as I struggle to hold back a blush of laugh.
"Alright, let's play beachball then" Of course, Richelieu wouldn't blush heavily from that!
Some time...
"Haauughh!" I hastily deflect the ball back toward you as I struggled to keep myself steady without panicking. We had been going at this and it was clear that i was totally new to this thing as you can see me tiring myself out in hasty blocks, even tripping over once and making a awkward display out of myself. Still. With my sixth sense and powers I did manage to hold myself against you as I kept my attention on the ball trying not to let myself get distracted by the sight of Atago in her beach skin
"Try catching that!" She sent the ball back at you with more strength than before as I wasn't going to-
"Aaauua-" With a surprised-looking face I get smacked and sent down onto the sand as I groan in pain and wince on the ground. ouch. "Owwugghh...god...Gauh!" I force myself to stand upright as I send the ball back toward you angry over what just happened.
She began to play a bit more softly "Are you alright? Did I overdo it?"
"Jesus... Feels like I collided head-first into Yamato...!" Shaking away my pain I just concentrated, I was finding it very hard to get any balls past your attention and I was getting frustrated despite my agility as a destroyer... though outside of baths and showers I just didn't have much contact with water of beaches because of my origins.
It wasn't much of a surprise how polluted beaches would scare me off from going to any beach again and even my shipgirl nature did not shift my opinion much when it came to that.
"It could have been worse, you could have felt a head-first collision into a Design A-150 battleship" Why that... on a second thought. nevermind.
"Yaauuhghh... G-God... Not again!" I was beginning to tire out as i struggled to keep down a yawn which would have resulted in you getting a point if it wasn't for me narrowly deflecting the ball just in time.
"Are you already tired? I'm sure Le Malin would not mind a new sleeping companion" She takes a safer playstyle to beat me in the endurance fight as I tried to not just gape at what i had heard.
"W-Wha!? Like I lose to Le malin in the sleeping department!" Slowing down I found myself struggling to be graceful with my blocks as I begin to stumble and feel sleepy, It didn't help some other random shipgirl was also distracting me now and on top of this there were the upcoming exercises.
I had been a small fan of Le Malin once before I changed to the other girls like Javelin or Z23. I reminded myself she WAS that sleepy outside of putting up a show.
"We can probably see this some day in a sleeping competition" She maintains pressure with each offensive as I was struggling and I was just too inexperienced to this sort of thing.
"Kuughh...Too tired... and upcoming exercises..." I stop trying as I find myself too tired and I stretch my hands. I didn't even try to throw the ball back at her as I considered it too much of a effort-I was quite a lazy loli sometimes.
"So, do you want to rest now?" The Battleship asked me, Of course she still was ready to go at it where I was almost able to go sleep on the sand!
"Y-Yup..." I end up doing something lewd as she catches sight of my panties and me rubbing my chest out of boredom as I walk over to her.
"Hey, you should avoid doing that in public" She chided me as I continued in spite of that.
"hmm...?" I look up at her with curiosity as I don't look like i care about what I just did and i take her hand.
"Nevermind... So what was that thing you wanted to talk about?" I began to walk along with her as we retrieved our clothes.
"I realized Zuikaku still considers us her rivals.. remember when we obliterated her planes to pieces and I took her apart with my spear?" Of course, When you traumatize shoukaku by blowing her up with torpedoes in bad weather before she even had a chance of do the same to her sister. She was going to remember it well.
"That will take some weight off Enterprise, she already has to deal with Essex and a few other shipgirls." I remembered the meme of Essex being all over for Enterprise fondly.. before I just shook my head lightly.
"We should go back and prepare for what's going to happen.. I can't risk getting sleepy!" I kept close to her as we walked and put back on our official clothes.
"I don't really like the timing, it's been a while since last time we encountered a META shipgirl" Huh... why would she say that?
"I know, But remember that a shipgirl with magical girl powers is always going to be superior to tech-insanity!" I decided to not explore the question further. preferring to leave it unanswered... We walked back. passing by Ark royal who follows us likely because of me, I had feelings for Richelieu ever since we landed up here.
It had been slowly growing over time. I realized that i wouldn't get along well with bog-standard admirals or the other shipgirls and She... Well... she were the only who knew about my secrets of our hidden second past and that we weren't Kiyonami of Richelieu at all. but just controlling their bodies empowered with our ideas.
Even Enterprise or Aoba didn't know the truth. and it was better to keep it that way "Not ark royal again..."
"If she starts acting like usual we'll just report her to Enterprise again" Ah, the good old Enterprise catching ark royal art.
"Right right..." I heard some noises from Ark royal which promptly caused me to turn around and yell at her with a tsundere look "BE QUIET!"
In this kind of situation, Even with my personality as a tsundere-kuudere. The tsundere part of me still won out if I ever got annoyed or angry at someone for something they did and Ark royal was no exception. I had been improving since I had time to start healing from my past... But my bad influence still wasn't gone yet. well. not completely.
"We're almost there, you just need to bear with it a little longer"
I cling to her more as we end up back in her room. Though I felt that Ark royal had taken pictures of me.
"Finally back here... Awaaa.." I laid down on the bed as I stripped down to just my panties and jacket.
From what she knew, I always did that even as a boy back then in just my shorts because I was too lazy and I liked the cold air... of maybe I just wanted to feel the air over me "We should have a quick snack and then join the fleet exercises! It can't be long off!" Of course. my hunger was that huge, Who knew?
"Sure, let's eat something then." She just sighed softly at hearing that.
"Oh, by the way.. Shurai chan..." I got up and waddled over to the Iris libre cardinal as I was in her face, looking into your eyes as she can feel my magical signature...
"Y-yes?" She stuttered back, Of course it was rare. But i found it fun to tease my friend like that.
"You know.. I've always liked doing this... And as its just the two of us..." I leaned in as I close my eyes to take her into a kiss...
I never had a girlfriend so far as I knew, and the only time something like a romantic kiss happened with my dad. but that was out of affection and not out of something stupid. However, seeing as we were both girls and I always had a thing for girls with a 'extra'...
She blushed being surprised by my kiss before turning it kiss into a French kiss.
"Mmmnnn!" Having no experience with this sort of thing I was forced to go off on roleplay descriptions as I hug her and deepen the kiss. A part of me gets worried about Javelin walking in into seeing a loli destroyer kissing a big battleship, But i push it aside as I open my eyes and stare closely.
I feel my panties growing wet and bothered as I feel her warm body as the Cardinal of the Iris libre and the woman's magical signature.
She hugged me back and kept kissing, still blushing. Soon I become shyly more assertive as I kiss her in a exploratory pattern and I slip my hand under your skirt and into your panties. feeling my wants as a destroyer to construct more shipgirls coming on as I grew hot and warm. I can feel her panties being wet and herself getting hot.
"Haa..Haa~..Aauh..." I break off the kiss as I pant lightly. I was too much of a amateur and out of practice from being not with anyone.
"Haa...Haa...W-why did you do that so suddenly..."
"I.. well... we've done this a couple times before so... Um... i..." I find myself with no words, I had no idea what to speak here since I did that so suddenly!
"I-it's fine... W-we can keep going if you want..." she says shyly back as while I could have continued. I forget something was still coming up-The fleet exercises.
"Wait.. The exercises are coming up... I know i sound like a baka.. but we should get out rather than just kissing and colliding with each other... Richelieu!" I regain my composure as afraid of the night or not, I still didn't want to miss a chance to humiliate and beat down Zuikaku some more.
"Oh, you're right, I completely forgot! We have to get ready!" She was alert now, any signs we were kissing already fading as we began preparing urgently.
"Right right right!" I threw on my skirt and pantyhose as I hastily drank any cola left, my blush already having faded since I was fixated on only one thing now. Sleepy of not, urgent events would shake off any sleepiness in me and cause me to get all energetic and alert. otherwise i would have not seen dad many times otherwise.
"Are you ready?" The now-dressed battleship asked me as I already had my answer.
"Y-yup! As ready as a destroyer retrofitted to these modern kongo-class shipgirl destroyers can be!" I was already wanting to see some action and the excitement of having my autoloading turrets firing on destroyers while aiming my RIM-66s to crash into other enemy shipgirls.. It was.. Beautiful in its own way.
"Let's go then!" She started walking out of the room as I run out being careful to avoid bumping into anything. not caring about being told to slow down or anything else. The friend of mine ran with me making sure I don't get injured before the exercise.
As time passes...
We were all prepared, With you knowing the one thing in my mind was to make fun of Zuikaku.
Just to make sure. I had considered switching my planes out for Reppus and other Sakura empire planes to make it more of a challenge for me, Since i was getting tired of Zuikaku constantly telling me I wasn't being fair with how many bombs i could fit on Interdiction-Strike Tornados.
"R-richelieu chan, I can already tell we've built up something of a legend here with our performance..."
"Then let's not disappoint them with our next one." Even as a improvised Guided missile battleship, that still didn't change her huge machinery design that much other than the introduction of some missile turrets.
"Well.. What will you be doing...? I plan to allow myself to be swarmed with Zuikaku's planes but try and see i-if i can slip in some bombers once her fighters are over me..." It was a crazy idea... But if it did work.. "Y-you have a superb close and medium Triple-A suite. right?"
"Yes, that's right." Of course my friend did know about her equipment. After all. A decent shipgirl usually knew how their weapons worked. Right?
"L-lets hope they all work just.. like" I whispered. given how there were shipgirls around, "your world of warship counterpart's AA..." And i raised my voice again. "Otherwise we might be in for some pain..."
"If it worked like that it would not work at all." What was she referring to? I was briefly confused trying to understand what she told me.
"I am just saying if they will work... Who knows how reliable they are?" I hold her hand as we heard the usual team stuff and more things i didn't bother listening to. I had done this before.
"Let's just hope that they are reliable." My close friend and Leader of Iris libre mumbled back to me. We hear something that Enterprise's also joining, as does the Fifth carrier division on the other side.
"...Just like i thought... Let's just hope we can get to Zuikaku first." Things were likely to quickly become chaotic and if Zuikaku found Enterprise first rather than us...
"We'll need to close in if we want to achieve something." That would also place her within my missile distance as well, A ideal range zone for her all-short-range systems also.
"And what about the other carriers like Hiryuu or Souryuu? Of the two destroyers.. Yuudachi and Shigure?" They were unpredictable factors. That was for sure, Especially Yuudachi. who knew what the Nightmare of Solomon could do?
"Yuudachi will not go down easily and Shigure might be lucky enough to remain. And for the other carriers, we will need to spot them before doing anything." At least my friend knew what we were going up against. But what was the plan here on how to deal with them?
Massachusetts looks at us as if curious. "Did you say something?"
"...U-um.. No?" I replied back toward the battleship. Given her history with Jean bart. I get tense as my friend might do something dumb.
"Are you ready Kiyonami?" Thankfully she didn't as she simply kept her concentration and all of her systems were ready to go.
"Yes... I am!" I gleefully answered back. I waited for Akashi to begin the fun... The battleship waited while thinking of a plan.
It didn't take long after. Hearing Akashi's announcement that the exercise has begun, I slammed on the engines to full power as I headed out already ready for battle and I powered up my RADARs. My friend did the same. getting into formation, booting up her RADARs and keeping an eye out for hostile presence already.
"So what's the plan here!" I don't see anything other than just friendly shipgirls all around as rangefinders measure everything around me, I had to be careful to avoid firing a RIM-66 at a unionite shipgirl of have a accident with targeting systems as I established a datalink.
"We should get in a diamond formation for now, so we are ready for a potential surprise air strike. But we really could use some extra reconnaissance." A diamond formation wouldn't matter too much with missiles. However if we were forced into Anti-aircraft operations using guns...
"That... can your Jets do that? I prefer holding whatever i have off for now and if i can get them in the range of my long range SAM..." Would her MD 452s of Super etendards be fit fo rthis Task? That was the answer!
"They can do that, let's just hope I don't screw that up." She started summoning her energy flight deck and prepared to launch a jet fighter squadron as I watched. There's so many choices.. Whether to send out the MD 452. a advanced variant of the MD 450 or to rely on the Super Etendard...
"I am listening to what our side may be saying, just in case we can get a hint..." Hornet usually would be the one to go on the offensive first while Enterprise liked to hang around with Yorktown, The First carrier division would in turn be likely aggressive. Although. the side we were on would have the destroyers tending to be a bit skittish while the Sakura destroyers would as always rely on long lances...
If i would see them however, I would be able to depress my RIM-66 launchers to fire at them. but that risked a reload, In turn. MD 452s would risk lowering Richelieu's defensive fighter strength and Super etendards weren't... easy in terms of upkeep costs.
"I am going to see if i can bait their planes... My missile suite should be able to blow up the first incoming w-waves!' I began to shout as I already felt myself alert and twitchy in anticipation of any naval gunfights.
"Don't take any unneeded risks, we still are the main air defenders of our fleet." Oh, of course. but that still didn't stop me from being a aggressive destroyer. Was I?
"And if that means i can get them into CAMM-ER range... T-Then all the better!" Jets launch off as we waited for the real fighting to begin, CAMM wasn't even in service until Azur lane was released. It was a very modern system.. though the same couldn't be said for my Standard missiles. Minimum range was handled by my guns and autocannons anyway and If I knew what my targets were.. I would be able to pick off the fighters for the Union carriers to clear out.
"Getting anything on radar yet?" I asked her as she stayed silent on that matter.
"I am not seeing anything yet.. maybe we should keep trying?" I tried to discern any reflections as I kept a alert lookout for possible submarines even though they didn't move that fast early in the battle yet. Then again, one can always never be paranoid when it came to submarines.
"Nothing spotted yet, stay alert." Of course her RADARs were inferior to mine's. But she wasn't supposed to be a anti-air battleship. She was meant to be a multirole one with a emphasis on anti surface operations!
Listening to the chatter I began getting reflections as I took a closer look. "...Enemy side there!" I shouted as I pointed my gun at the direction I was trying to tell. The battleship whirling around to face the direction i was pointing at.
"Number? Type?" The Iris libre battleship demanded the amount of targets and their possible classifications as I wasn't getting anything complex in descriptions yet. forcing me to go with simple numbers and statements instead.
"Numerous! Lots! NCTR target classification is not working on my side!" I practically yelled as I threw all of my computing power at NCTR. My RADARs still sweeping the sector on where the probable hostiles were detected.
"If we are outnumbered we should avoid a frontal fight." She had a point there, But we had a Magical girl capability. If things got this bad, We would fight them alone if that what it had to come to!
Either way. This likely had to be the main fleet we were fighting, I yelled to enterprise and the other girls the direction of the enemy side as things began to become more frantic.
Richelieu readied her guns waiting for further intel as I got to work on that. My cyber warfare systems running at full power.
The good thing was that they weren't aware yet. but i knew that as soon as the carriers sent off their planes the element of surprise would be lost, I saw the Union shipgirls accelerating as I can't detect any planes. "They aren't aware of us yet! We must exploit t-that!"
"Alright, prepare for a surprise strike, we will use torpedo bombers as a decoy strike while the dive bombers come from straight above them." Hmm... Perhaps if i could order Enterprise to go with the plan...
"Enterprise and the other light carriers... Are they going to listen at all!" They were already preparing their planes. I had no idea if we would be able to override them but with our modern electronics.. Surely commanding was part of our roles, Even if it had to come from a lowly destroyer? "How many planes do you have up yet? Jet bombers or fighters?" I had to know what we would be using for this plan.
I transmit the location and direction of enemy RADAR reflections to Richelieu. letting her know their estimated position and direction facing the battleship as she got her answer.
"I have enough for an opportunity strike. We may be able to to outrange them if they go after us while we start a tactical withdrawal. If they won't go for the chase, we may attempt to get them through continuous air harassment." With the speed of the Super etendards, That would be easy to achieve. The Enemy side wouldn't see this coming until it was too late with transonic strike fighters!
"You focus heavily on jet bombers. Right? Things are going to get messy soon... I keep you updated on the battles pace...!" I barked back as I keep trying to run NCTR analysis but I can't get anything. Stupid goddamn shapes!
"Anything new yet?" Richelieu/Shura asked me as I replied back quickly. still not getting anything yet about what the blips were.
"Still working on it. Narrow your radar scan pattern!" It was a good thing Phased arrays were so good at that.
"Got it!" She narrowed her radar scan pattern as my datalink confirms that. Though given the difference in quality of our RADARs I was going to spot them first before she did.
After some effort. The battleship can make out faint echoes in the same direction I reported the enemy fleet to be in.
Judging by how its a single blob. Its likely the main enemy fleet. Air Radar reports nothing so far other than just friendly aircraft as her Jet squadron is idling.
"First squadron of Reppus... Go!" Some planes fly out from my energy flight deck as I turn my head toward my materialized carrier hull. busy directing them as my electronics keep running Non-cooperative target recognition programs in a attempt to figure out the composition of the enemy fleet. "Get these super etendards of yours up! Paste the carriers, but leave Zuikaku f-for her duel against us!"
Finally my Search RADAR seems to classify something as Its getting easier for me to discern ships and separate them from the blob mess. If shell splashes were bigger than the actual ship blips theirselves with WW2 equipment. what was the point other than just knowing where they were going?
"Akatsukis and the Takao twins at their outer search zone! Looks like the Mutsukis are also at their second layer of... cruising formation!" I upload what i was seeing to her by datalink. the new data being processed as she now knew the positions of the shipgirls in question.
I was already starting to like this feature of being able to know what enemy i was facing with just a single sweep of radar alone. It had been introduced on the F-15s first. but it was now standard for anything modern... And I loved it.
"Once we know where their main striking force is, we will have to go for a decisive air raid on them, their screening should not be too hard to handle if they get limited fire support." Richelieu/Shura replied as success would depend if all of her Jet attackers could hit all at once...
"Well then.. Get these jet bombers flying! Hit them before they see Enterprise's slow planes!" I began looking though my choice of available planes. ranging from a full squadron of MiG-29Ks to Helldivers and Saiuns as I felt a headache coming on with the data being processed though me.
"Working on it!" Richelieu/Shura sent her Super Etendards for the airstrike as my Search RADAR began tracking them upon taking off.
At this point. her SMART-S RADAR picks them up as she is indicated if she want to do a NCTR analysis of not amidst all the strange mix of twin RBE2 missile director PESA radars. SG and PESAized DRBC 33 integrated turret gun radars.
"Come on... hurry..." My RADAR picks up enemy aircraft going out. Likely scouts not fighters or bombers as it was impossible for us to be detected this early. I hold off on firing my RIM-66 missiles I would fire, sure. but the engine would burn out and that would cause them to freak out and try to follow the direction of where the missile came from. Besides... her CAMM-ER was going to cover visual distance anyway.
I see Enterprise's and Independence's planes flying overhead "Hurry up! We are going to lose the element of surprise if we don't do this first!"
At the same time my NCTR target analysis indicates Nagato and Mutsu are behind the carriers and the Kongos are ahead as Suzutsuki and Hanazuki are in a row formation, leaving the sides undefended.
Finally I have full data and I upload it to her. She knows Akagi and Kaga along with Shoukaku and Zuikaku are bunched up together and the Shouhous are behind them. The destroyers form the first layer along with the cruisers at a second layer. battleships last.
There's some angles where there's only destroyers of not as many cruisers. lowering AA fire, as well as others where the vanguard ships are vulnerable without the heavy cruisers or battleships to back them up,
The enemy scouts that are flying also appear to be surprisingly Zuiuns.
"How large's your airstrike? did you hold back of... Did you go in with all bombers?" I asked her as I cataloged all of these blips.
"All bombers are up, I am counting on the following strikes to buy me enough time to rearm and start my own carrier harassment raids." Well, That was good to know. It had to work of this would fail!
"Right!" I anxiously keep my SAM launchers ready as I count time to impact for her Super etendards, watching the bombers leave the Union planes behind.
Her bombers arrive. Zuikaku had to be left alone for her duel. But anything else.. was fair game. That also included the AA destroyers too. "Bombers engaging the enemy, priority targets are battleships and AA shipgirls!"
"Fire!" My mounts fire their RIM-66 missiles as it was now of never with the element of surprise, and these scout planes had to die. My Search RADAR switches to target channel tracking. The enemy side doesn't even have the time to react properly let alone get fighters up in time.
The bombing ends up severely crippling the enemy fleet's surface AA and damaging most of the targeted ships, leaving some destroyers more damaged than others and a few cruisers with one or two damaged turrets, battleships having taken the heaviest punishment and carriers receiving a few bombs as a mean of pressure.
"A textbook fast bomber run of attacking undetected!" I smile however I keep my attention on guiding my Standard missiles as this causes the enemy side to panic, Union planes were following up now...
"Did she... do that?" Gridley The destroyer says in amazement from getting reports of how much Shura/Richelieu's all-in airstrike did.
"Everyone, focus your planes on finishing the enemy battleships and not giving their carriers any rest!" The battleship gave her command as both sides were closing to engagement distance now as I pick up echoes of squadrons of enemy aircraft going airborne. A quick NCTR deduction puts them as Reppus.
"Gun distance! Look out! Atago ahead!" I point as we can see the approaching fleet. "What's our relative position to our friendly fleet!?" At the same time Richelieu's Electronic warfare suite reports enemy SG radars going online and my missiles explode on the scout planes with direct hits seen on the blips.
"They're turning on their radars! We have to hold them off until our carriers are re-positioned, prepare for a defensive torpedo barrage and watch out for their long lance!" Understanding that I gave the order for a EW barrage to go up as we can hear the first signs of fighting begin.
"I am going to jam them, probably will make things h-harder for my main search radar though!" Following that. The battle begins as the friendly planes complete their tasks. Knocking out Kongo and Kirishima and forcing them to conclude the exercise as Akagi suffers considerable damage and Suzutsuki ironically is the first to go, That poor Akizuki-class...
By this time Sakura planes are fully up, however this also puts them inside of Richelieu's CAMM ER medium range weapons as her PESAs track incoming and outgoing shells.
"A-Aauuhh!" I squeal as I skid into her from panicking a bit as splashes erupt around us. but we avoid each other gracefully. During this time all of my fighters are up as I prepare a airstrike in the form of Helldivers, my Standard launchers reloaded.
"Set up a smokescreen, with their radars jammed this will allow us better AA performance!" Well. With how advanced modern radars were, They were not going to be seeing much of would be faced with deception false targets. that was for sure!
Quickly looking though my available options. I had many choices from noise to deception jamming as I fumble with the settings. Deciding to screw it, I start laying down smoke as I try to ignore my systems warning me about incoming hostile aircraft and offering me a option to fire missiles of not as Richelieu/Shura fires her CAMM-ER missiles at the incoming planes,
CAMM-ERs fly as MICA-VL-M-RF missiles are warmed up and prepared. This wave seems to consist of Suisei as i watched the destroyers marauding at each other. I see Yuudachi and Shigure getting very close as the Bensons try to fight them off."Benson and Bailey. engaged by the Nightmare of Solomon and Shigure!"
"Search radar. Commencing hostile radar neutralization by noise jamming!" I have to hold off on having my helldivers take off as the risk of being shot at was too great, All rival shipgirls were within missile range.
(OST:End of Midsummer NGE2 PS2/PSP)
Richelieu/Shura detects shells headed for her as her systems try to pinpoint where it came from and narrow it down to the Takaos as Torpedoes are launched and Nagato fires at one of the Clevelands. On my side however..."Kuh..N-Not L-like I am going to panic from just a bunch of stupid heavy cruisers!" I shake my head as I aim my RIM-66J launchers to fire at Takao, hoping to cause some fires given the solid rocket engine would still be running.
"I will take some pressure away from the fleet, use that to take better positions and pick off their vanguard! All power on Engine and Artillery!"She started splitting from the main fleet, focusing on maintaining continuous gunfire on Nagato and Mutsu and drawing their fire on herself. and on speed to minimise hostile shell hits.
Now that i was in combat, My computerized systems came fully to life as I tried to not let myself get distracted by this HUD of mine.
ENEMY TAKAO TAKAO-CLASS HEAVY CRUISER MASS PRODUCTION MODEL RADAR ACTIVITY DETECTED:YES
DURABILITY/INNER ARCANE SHIELDING/DEFENSIVE BARRIERS
KIYONAMI/LAFFEYDD459CHAN KIYONAMI-CLASS FLEET DEFENSE ANTI AIRCRAFT DESTROYER TEST TYPE MAGICAL GIRL
DURABILITY/INNER ARCANE SHIELDING/DEFENSIVE BARRIERS
"Right! Put these supersonic flying bombs of yours t-to use!" The Nagatos keep firing but are forced to soon deal with this new threat as Union planes keep bombing. With AAA being disrupted by what she did with that surprise strike. losses are lower than normal and they are able to force the Sendais to leave along with some of the Yuugumos.
"Exocets... Go!" Dialling in some targeting coordinates. specifically Choukai I fire all Exocets as more enemy fighters and torpedo bombers arrive. Takao goes up in flames from multiple Standard missile hits but is still able to keep fighting.
RICHELIEU/SHURA RICHELIEU-CLASS AVIATION FAST BATTLESHIP TEST TYPE MAGICAL GIRL
"All firepower mobilised on Nagato, missiles locked on Mutsu! Feu!" Richelieu/Shura fired a full salvo with all available guns and P-270s as Streams of light and smoke trail from her launchers as P-270 heavy missiles take to the sky. accelerating to supersonic speeds as your guns target and fire at Nagato... Hitting her as Tenzans begin their torpedo run on the Iris libre battleship.
As her distraction was successful she redirected power and her attention to engines and AAA as the planes are close enough to be targeted by her close range AAA. With modern targeting systems. Her bofors and autocannons take range measurements before firing. a deadly dance of accurately aimed tracers lashing out as they get inside her minimum effective range for CAMM-ER.
"Go!" I fire my torpedoes as I find myself getting targeted by planes and enemy destroyers. splashes brimming around me. My reppus fight it out with Shoukaku's as Hellcats strafe and Avengers drop their torpedoes on the enemy side.
"We have the upper hand, do not let them recover!" Richelieu/Shura kept firing salvos with her guns at Nagato and Mutsu to keep the fleet's momentum as I saw the Gridleys nearly getting into collision distance with the Yuugumos.
The Little beavers are out as does Helena while Hiei goes up in flames from South dakota, Richelieu/Shura still sees multiple enemy squadron planes flying around all inside her CAMM-ER missile range.
I see torpedoes and Suiseis headed at Richelieu's way. Oh screw-
"All Anti-air systems fire!" At that moment. She kept diverting more power from her guns to AA while avoiding the torpedoes as MICA missiles flew and chased down the retreating bombers. Each splashing and shattering the wings and tails of the bombers.
At the same time, Her Sea ceptors/CAMMs establish a lock on before launch as her secondaries (Which had a AA capability. like a result of having semi-modern equipment) fire. A suisei exploding as its shredded by electronic time fused shells. There's another squadron of Suiseis approaching from the other side as well!
"Ggaaughh...! N-not so fast..!" I fire back with my guns. managing to inflict a critical secondary explosion on Ayanami from hitting what seems like a magazine as I tried to not be overwhelmed by the constant management of trying to control my aircraft. Richelieu fires a big salvo on the side she is not already manoeuvring.
Several more CAAM-ERs fly out. locked on to the Suiseis with their active seekers as Richelieu's medium and short range autocannons begin firing. each gun aimed with rangefinders...Union carriers were already preparing their next wave as her Smart-S RADAR still sees numerous airborne blips inside my friend's MICA and CAMM range.
"G-get away from me!" I scream as I again aim down my RIM-66 launchers to toss some missiles at Yuudachi who was now headed my way. Tenzans with Reppus are headed for the South dakotas, My Oerlikon KCAs on overhauled type 96 mounts not letting up as the cruisers and destroyers on both sides were being chipped away.
Finally. Richelieu sees Zuikaku rapidly approaching her as that search radar identifies her. "Zuikaku spotted, I'll provide some fire support so you can break through, be quick!" She aimed her smaller naval guns at Yuudachi and start firing at her while dealing with any incoming airstrikes.
"Guauughh!" I manage to get away from the dog-eared destroyer as I summon my spear and prepare to clash with the crane.
"This is it, everyone, it is the time when we go all-out!" The sakura side is losing, likely a result of the battleship's bomber attack. Zuikaku sees me and charges at me as I parry her katana my with spear.
"It's you! Kiyonami!" She practically yelled.
"Stay focused, you know how Zuikaku is and what is her greatest weakness" Of course I knew how hotheaded she was when it came to her rivals. but right now that wasn't diminishing the sweat on my eyes! I try to reply but I am unable to as Zuikaku constantly swings away at me, forcing me to block each blow with the tip of my spear!
"How about you face someone of a closer tonnage!" She sent a fighter to split the two of us from each other as we witness Washingtion being forced to call it quits.
"KKuhhhh...!" I break the bladelock just as we are forced apart from that fighter of Richelieu's. "...I remember you from that battle, being on Illustrious's side!"
Listening to Zuikaku's words. I hefted and adjusted my grip on my spear "Y-you still remember..." My spear's now aimed at her as we both stare at each other, seeing North Carolina firing on some cruisers as AA explosions fill the sky.
"I'm guessing we have a revenge situation for this exercise." My friend wasn't wrong. Of course. since when did Zuikaku forget about rivals? Zuikaku and I look slightly at her before we go at each other, blades clashing as I am mostly on the defensive mindset. This also removes me effectively as a Fleet defense anti air destroyer as the battleship sees Sakura planes managing to escape Union fighters.
She sends more fighters to cover the main fleet as a reminder indicates that all CAMM lanucher mounts are reloaded as most of her MICA-VL-M-RF missiles remain unused, MD 452s taking to the air as a few squadrons of Etendards are ready once again for another run.
"Kuah! aauh! Mmuh!" I keep intercepting and parrying Zuikaku's strikes as I am surprisingly fast with that spear for a loliboat girl of my size."Pretty more for you! Kiyonami!" Zuikaku keeps trying to break my stance ineffectively.
I jump back as I somersault in the air to execute a graceful landing. Zuikaku quickly following as my friend's guns knock out one of Mutsu's turrets. She maintained her guns and SSM focus on Nagato and Mutsu.
P-270s are still in the midst of reloading. however she could force the CAMM-ERs or MICA-VL-M-RFs into surface mode if needed as she suffer a blow from Haruna. My friend doing so to force some of them into surface mode as they are configuted to target ships, they are able to establish a Lock on After Launch/LOAL being fed data by her Smart-s RADAR as tens of short range anti air missiles are available in the anti-surface role. She sees Aoba firing her torpedoes aimed at her!
"Aaugguhhhh!" I try to overpower Zuikaku as I press down on my spear with strength. Seeing torpedoes headed her way the Cardinal of the Iris libre started manoeuvring away while aiming her smaller guns at Aoba.
Aoba keeps chasing her relentlessly as she suffer another hit from Nagato. Sea ceptors and MICAs waiting for launch as Zuikaku and I spot Enterprise with her bow."Grey ghost...!" The crane muttered.
My friend launched more of her unused MICAs on Aoba while turning the gun originally pointed towards Mutsu on Nagato. Several trails of light leave her as they streak toward Aoba. All aircraft prepared and just waiting for launch as half of all Sakura aircraft have been destroyed.
Kicking Zuikaku. I manage to force her away again as I began preparing my aircraft once more. A blue carrier hull appearing on my arm in a window of vulnerability as I launch a salvo of Exocets at Nagato and then forget about them.
With the enemy's air power crippled Richelieu began launching her own aircraft with Haruna and Mutsu as main strike targets.
"M-more of that!" Pointing my arm at her my Super forty Bofors L/70 cannons begin firing. each thump followed by the sounds of cases. each fully enveloping the round itself in a attempt to throw her off.
Etendards again go up as with what had happened earlier the Sakura fleet is unable to respond and Richelieu's jets are simply too fast as Aoba suffers superstructure hits from the woman's naval short range SAM sea-ceptor missiles.
The battle is starting to come to a close as Shoukaku finally calls it quits. Soon I try to fire at Zuikaku again however one of my Mark N1s refuses to as I gritted. "G-Gun's jammed!?" I have to defend myself against Zuikaku's sword again as I soon go on the offensive preferring speed and weight of my spear!
Richelieu focused on her smaller guns aiming in order to hopefully get Aoba off her trail. Secondaries rain down a storm of shells on Aoba as she set's on fire. Her bombers arrive and I manage to break Zuikaku's defense.
While Super Etendard bombers execute their strike, The Iris libre shipgirl fired her main guns at Nagato to limit her movements just as I did my own power attack.
"Take thissss!" I swing down in a lunging slash as Nagato suffers considerable damage from radar and rangefinder-directed fire as Mutsu and Haruna suffer massive superstructure damage. She doesn't let up on firing her guns, maintaining the current targets for both her guns and strike groups.
Tearing Zuikaku's hull to the seams with my spear I unleash a deadly dance of swings and thrusts that leaves Zuikaku down as Mutsu and Haruna at the same time finally goes up and are forced to leave as Nagato gets bombed by... Saratoga. again.
"I.. I concede..." I can barely listen to whta Zuikaku was saying as I panted. "Haah...Haah... Keeping me on edge is n-not something o-one can easily do..." I panted as i dreamily looked up at the sky as the side i was on despite suffering a bit had done some heavy damage to the opposing side. It looks like me and our side have won!
"Seems like you all made progress since last time" Of course my friend had to make a remark. but I ignored that.
As the battle concedes. My friend would have made MVP rank if it wasn't for her failing to fully exploit the advantages in her AA capability or putting up a air denial zone with missiles. or using her magical girl powers to their potential.
I rank high. though its because of me doing my thing as a Fleet Defense Anti Air multirole destroyer and destroying numerous aircraft with my CAMMs and RIM-66s. as well as solely taking down Zuikaku.
"...G-Go get your rest... I be waiting..." I groaned as I was too tired.
"Are you sure? You seem to be needing some rest as well" Not caring about what my friend said. I just replied back ot her. "...I... well.. I be waiting on the roof of so..."
"Alright then, but make sure to have enough rest" Hearing that. I left as my arms ached.
Some time.. With just Richelieu She was doing her cardinal duties. However with herself alone the battleship's thoughts wander off.
Jean Bart... Enterprise... Nagato, Kiyonami. Me. The only one who knew our secret of not being from Azur lane. "Richelieu chan. Please tug on that hope of yours!" She remembers flashing that smile with me in my transformed state as she tried to use her powers for the first time.
Javelin asked her what's wrong as this makes the battleship turn around on her heels. "Oh, Javelin, don't mind me, it's nothing too important"
"You sure. Richelieu-san? You looked worried..." She told her curiously.
"It's nothing really, did you need something?"
"Oh! Nothing!" The destroyer says cheerfully with her trademark smile.
"Well, how about you go and play with Ayanami or Laffey" The battleship replied, however before she could resume the Destroyer asked her once more.
"Javelin:S-sure..." Richelieu detected a hint of concern in her voice as she walks away. She sighed before going back to her duties.
As she finished doing her duties. she can feel my presence as it doesn't seem to change in intensity. At that point she started looking for me by following my presence.
Arriving to where she was feeling me. Somehow i am perched on a roof impossibly. My presence feels more intense as if i am transformed. This didn't stop the battleship as she started looking for me on any roofs. And with her having access to some of my lesser powers even when not transformed she was able to perform arcane-assisted jumps. As I sat there. Of course I am transformed as I sit looking out with my spear in hand.
"I finally found you" I don't turn my head toward my friend's voice, although I do begin paying attention to her.
I sit up, my white and yellow skirt fluttering as I look a bit different. my dress glittering as I flip my twintails tied by aquamarine bowties.
My eye color also has changed from blue to a gradient gold-light pink as she sees my armored boots reminding her of the HDD CPUs from neptunia. perhaps there was something about my personality in terms of eye color?
"A-Ah! How did you get up here?" In this state I sound more confident but still a bit shy as there's a rabbit hairclip on my head.
"I jumped, and how did you get up here?"
"You forget t-that I can fly. you know!" Violet trapezoidal wings manifest on my back as I look moderately confused by what she just said.
"So, did you get some rest as I told you to?" The battleship asked me, I already knew how to answer that one.
"Well... I-I did. I've been just sitting around here like this ever since" My eyes shine as I walk up to herwith a curious look. Spear still in hand.
"Then what do you want to do with the time we have left?"
"I wanna go back to your room!" I hop up and down. Of course that was a obvious answer from me given how I liked my friend!
"Alright, let's go there." Following her I took the lead as I ran ahead excitedly.