3rd person POV

Blue Flame Princess entered into one of the other storage looking buildings. She found that it actually seemed to be a barracks. She was currently walking down what looked to be a main hallway, doors lining the side of the hall, some seemed to lead to bedrooms, and others to storage closets. Currently she was heading towards what she assumed was the mess hall. Floating besides her was one of Southern's scout planes, it seemed to float slowly like it was in space, though still managed to stay with her.

Now Blue didn't know too much about Southern, mainly since it seemed that both of them had amnesia. But that didn't mean she wanted to be alone. For her it just meant that it would be slightly hard to get to know her, it is just, how do you get to know someone, when they don't even know who they're and what they're interested in? Though she had grown to like Southern a little seeing her as a protector, because she herself is just a carrier and she very well knows that a carrier on their own is vulnerable.

Though now when she entered the mess hall she could see that it was a literal mess. Tables and chairs had been thrown around, some were broken, glass was on the floor, from what looked to be broken picture frames. She sighed to herself as she now cautiously made her way through the mess to the kitchen, hoping to find any canned foods that might be good to eat.

When she made it into the kitchen it was just as a mess as the mess hall. Cooking utensils, pans, pots, pot lids etc were lying all around the room in a complete and utter mess. Again Blue sighed seeing the massive mess, but she still searched around for what the kitchen held.

She was looking in a wooden cabinet above a counter at the back of the kitchen, when she heard the clattering of metal behind herself. She thought someone else was there, and for a second thought Southern had wandered into the same building as her. But when she turned around she saw Southern's plane lying on the floor, the purple glowing band seeming to fade-away, like it was suddenly deactivated. She made her way over to it, stepping over the stuff on the ground, and picked it up examining it for a moment before looking up.

"What happened?" She said to herself "did… did, Southern deactivate it? Or…" then two answers crept into her mind. Either Southern had deactivated it on purpose, or Southern was in trouble.

She didn't even think about it anymore as she now did her best to get out of the building quickly, though was slowed down by the mess of the kitchen and mess hall. But now she was running through the hallway of the building towards the outside, still holding Southern's scout plane in her hand.

It took her only a few minutes to reach the building that Southern had entered into. She walked slowly through it as she looked around, before she hollered "Southern? Are you here? Your plane… it deactivated!"

Now her eyes came upon seeing the Abyssal monster destroyers that Southern had seen before. I-class, Ha-class etc were hanging from chains, seeming lifeless and in need of repair. But now Blue saw that one spot where broken chains were hanging, was empty of any Abyssal monster, and the floor underneath the spot seemed to be broken, then she noticed that it wasn't actually broken. There seemed to be a trap floor that opened up to a canal, for which the destroyers could come through and be working on.

She walked over to where the trap floor had opened up and could see Southern, unconscious and floating on the water's surface, as the silhouette of a monster destroyer lay beneath her sunken in the canal.

"Southern!" She suddenly yelled seeing her condition. She ran forward, and after a moment's hesitation, tried to get Southern out of the water. But she was too preoccupied to notice something behind herself.

She knelt at the edge of the canal and tried reaching out to grab one of Southern's feet. But when she grabbed her right foot, she found that it was incredibly hard to pull her up. Until Blue felt something wrapping around her waist. Suddenly she was pulled backwards which at least pulled Southern out of the water and onto dry land, but as Blue let out a scream, she was suddenly lifted up into the air and faced the odd jellyfish Abyssal that Southern had examined beforehand.

Now its eye was no longer a dull orange, but rather it was fiery, and the creature seemed to be alive and awake. Blue's eyes went big with fear, as she saw its single large eye, that was easily as big as her head, staring blankly at her. She tried to struggle free, but failed as she found one of its long black tentacles wrapped around her waist. Her legs helplessly flailed in the air as she tried to get free, but all her efforts were for nothing, as she saw the Abyssal jellyfish raising its gun to aim at her. It looked like it was planning on killing her.

She recoiled as much as she could and shut her eyes. Then she whimpered out "please don't kill me! I'm just a Trench Abyssal trying to find out who I am!" As she finished her sentence she could feel the end of the barrel touching her chest, before the jellyfish Abyssal seemed to freeze completely still.

"Eh?" Blue slowly opened her eyes to look at the creature. There was a silent, tense moment before she could feel the creature lowering her to the ground, until it let go of her when her feet touched the floor.

Then she heard a voice simply say "sorry..." the voice was deep and sounded robotic in nature.

Blue looked around frantically for the source, and yelled out "who's there?! Show yourself!" There was only silence but then she felt a tentacle from the Abyssal jellyfish thing poking her on the head.

"Eh… Eh?!" Screamed Blue as she jumped backwards from it "were you the one to speak?!"

"Yes..." was all Blue heard in response, from the same deep robotic voice. Blue was just stunned as she stared up at the odd creature, which now lowered its gun to a non-threatening position.

There was silence for a second before Blue remembered about Southern "oh, Southern! Are you alright!?" Now she went over to the unconscious Southern's side and checked to see if she was still alive. Thankfully she was and Blue let out a sigh of relief.

But Blue didn't know what had happened, she didn't know how Southern had ended up like this. She didn't know it yet, but the jellyfish like Abyssal was the one that had thrown her across the room. Which involves a tremendous amount of strength to throw an Abyssal princess around, with riggings summoned.

Now Blue tried examining Southern's body closer to check for any injuries, but found none. She then thought of what she could do to help, and really only thought that she could only wait for Southern to wake up "ugh, I'll have to wait until she wakes up, but I should move her to a better place than this" Though now she could see a tentacle reaching out from the jellyfish Abyssal.

Blue could see the Abyssal jellyfish thing laying the tentacle of Southern's head. Blue tilted her head curiously and looked up at the strange creature "what are you doing?" She mumbled out loud. There were a few quiet seconds as Blue was watching what the Abyssal was doing, though she soon thought that if something didn't happen soon that she would try to pick Southern up.

But that wasn't needed as when she looked back at Southern. Suddenly Southern shot up onto her feet and immediately seemed alert "wha!- what happened?!" She yelled as she looked around, her guns at the ready. The jellyfish Abyssal thingy had done something to Southern, but whatever it was Blue didn't know.

Though now as she turned around and pointed her guns at Blue, Blue waved her hands in the air and yelled "Whoa, Whoa! everything is alright now Southern!"

Southern stood down when she saw Blue, and put a hand to her head "ugh, What happened?"

"You were knocked out by something" Blue answered "your plane that was with me deactivated, so I came to check what was happening and found you unconscious in the water" she said as she now stood up.

"Ugh, what knocked me… out…" Now Southern looked back up and could see the jellyfish Abyssal towering over Blue, hovering probably four meters above the two of them. Now her guns were at the ready again as she pointed them at the Abyssal behind Blue.

The jellyfish Abyssal seemed to hover backwards and raised its tentacles out of the way to aim its own gun at Southern. Though soon Blue yelled out "Whoa, Whoa! This thing helped you get out of the water and it woke you up!" Southern seemed to wane slightly as she looked at Blue.

Southern seemed to think for a moment before simply saying "explain, please"

Now Blue went over an account of what had just happened with the whole Southern getting knocked out, and Blue coming to check and finding the jellyfish Abyssal there. Though she did omit the part where she begged for her life, as that was embarrassing for her to say.

Now Southern was calm and just stared at Blue for a minute before saying slowly "ok… so this thing is now our ally?"

"Yes..." was the answer, but it didn't come from Blue. Again it was the same deep robotic sounding voice, that Blue now knew was from the jellyfish Abyssal.

"Wha- who said that?!" Southern yelled.

"That spoke" Blue answered as she pointed back at the jellyfish Abyssal, which no longer had its gun aiming at Southern.

Southern tilted her head in curiosity "huh… just like that creature from before" she quietly said to herself.

"Hmm? What did you say?" Blue asked.

Now Southern spoke in a normal voice "oh it's nothing" though now she looked around at the surroundings quickly before changing the subject "did you find anything where you were searching?"

"No, the cabinets in the kitchen were empty. Though for some reason the mess hall and kitchen were a complete mess"

Southern inhaled deep before speaking "I see… well we should probably start looking around again"

"Sure" she answered "though how about we stick together this time?" She added.

"Yeah let's do that"

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Southern's POV, time skip 20 minutes

So apparently I had been knocked out by the weird Abyssal thingy I had been inspecting. My planes apparently had deactivated when I got knocked unconscious, and it alerted Blue. She came to check on me and apparently found that I was unconscious while floating on the water in a sort of canal.

She had an encounter with the strange Abyssal thingy and after a moment of it looking like it going to kill her, it chilled down for no apparent reason and let her go. Then it did a weird thing with its tentacle to wake me up, and no I don't mean risqué things! When it happened it just felt like there was a voice in my head that told me to 'wake up' and then I just woke up. Though of course I was on alert.

Now Blue, and I were going to check out the factories on the southern side of the island. We were followed by the Abyssal thingy on the way, which followed behind Blue like a loyal dog, which I thought was a little odd at first. The walk to the factories wasn't really eventful, though once we reached the factories we could see how massive they were.

They went up probably twenty meters, and each of them was about forty or fifty meters wide, though we had yet to see the exact length. We broke in through what we guessed was an exit door, and found ourselves in a massive dark room.

"Whoa" I said slowly, as I tried to see what was inside the factory, though I found that I could only see faint silhouettes of something hanging from the ceiling.

"What is this?" Blue asked as she walked in after me.

"I don't know" now when I stepped further I found myself standing on what seemed to be a cat walk. I looked down and could only see a dark abyss of nothingness.

There was a sudden banging behind us. We both turned around and saw the strange abyssal thingy trying to force its massive form through the doorway that obviously wasn't made for it.

I could see Blue walking towards. She said "Whoa Whoa whoa, stay out here right now" almost immediately the creature stopped trying to get in.

"Seems like it wants to follow us, doesn't it?" I say as I turn around to see if I could perhaps find a light switch.

"Yeah seems so" Blue said as she seemed to do the same. Though now since we had gone quiet, we could both here a faint echoing of our voices. Though after a moment she spoke again "be careful, we are on something, and we don't know how far a drop that is"

"Alright" I simply responded.

Now it was several quiet minutes between the two of us as we silently searched around for anything that could give us a way to see. The only sounds that broke the silence was that of our footsteps. Then suddenly we were surprised by the sound of screeching metal, then a few seconds later we were blinded by light flooding in from the outside.

I blinked quite a bit as the light flooded into my eyes, though now after my eyes adjusted, I looked around and found us in an odd place. I looked down and could see dark water about five meters below us. Then I looked to my left and could see tentacles, like the ones the strange creature has, but these were much thicker and longer, and were white with black spots, and they were hanging limply from the ceiling. I looked down again and this time could see strange Abyssal creatures like the ones I had seen in the repair shop, though there were other ones there that also somewhat resemble creatures more like me or Blue, but they were lined up in formation, and all seemed to be dormant.

When I looked at where the light had come from I could see one, of two, large doors to the open ocean, outside, had been opened up fully. Then after a moment I could see that the strange Abyssal thingy had opened it up, on its own.

Then I could see blue pointing at something in front of me and said "look there, Southern, it looks to be a control room"

I looked at where she had pointed and could see the silhouette of a black box with windows, probably a hundred meters ahead of us. For a second I thought I saw a shadowy figure inside the room, but I think it was just my imagination. Either way we started walking towards the control room to see if there was anything important there.

"This place seemed to once be a factory for those shark thingys" I commented as we walked.

"Mm, yeah…" Blue commented, then she continued "I've seen those before. Some of them attacked me when I was with Southern Trench Princess"

"Wait, those things have attacked you?" I asked.

"Yeah, they seem to be some kind of mass produced Abyssal"

now I glanced slightly backwards at Blue, and could see she was counting the Abyssal shark things in the factory. I just took a quick glance at them and could see at least two dozen of them, and with about a dozen ones that looked more humanoid than the shark things, with eye holes that were black. Though now I glanced at Blue again and could see she seemed slightly concerned about the Abyssal shark things. I think she is just scared that they might turn on and attack us.

"Ah, so have you seen what ship girls look like?" I ask to try and both talk about something and, to try and get Blue's mind off of those creatures.

"No I haven't" she answered "Like I told you before, I don't really know who they are. All I know is that they're like us, and for some reason we are at war with them"

"Wait, so other Abyssals attack us, and we are at war with the ship girls? Then is there anyone out there who will help us?"

"I don't know, perhaps another Trench Abyssal can help"

"That's easier said than done" I say as we now reach the door to the control room. Now I peer through the window in the door for anything, before I try to open it and find it locked "dang it, it won't open"

"Grab it and pull it slightly harder" Blue says.

"Eh? Why, it's going to take much more than me just pulli-" I say, as I do what she says to make a point, but I'm cut off when a loud cracking noise happens, and I'm holding a door that is now torn off its hinges "eh?" I just move slightly and can see that I'm just holding the door by the door knob.

"There you go" Blue says as she now walks past me into the control room.

I somewhat awkwardly place the door leaning against the railing and try to walk in, but find that like before, I can't enter the room. It seemed some doors were wide enough for my riggings and others weren't. I grumbled slightly as I wished that I didn't have to manually remove my riggings to enter into a room. But as I reached towards the lever to release my riggings, I suddenly saw my riggings disappear in black pillars that floated upwards before seeming to dissipate in the air.

"Eh? What happened?" I say out loud in bewilderment.

"What is it?" Blue asked while standing next to what looked like a control panel with, knobs, and levers, and switches, and a bunch of other stuff.

"My riggings they just disappeared in black pillar things, and I don't know where they went"

She tilted her head curiously at me, while seeming to have a thinking face on "did you want them to be gone?" She asked.

"Well yeah, but I was just planning on taking them off like before. I kinda want them back actually, I feel really light, and it's an odd feeling" as I was saying this I could see that Blue's attention was entirely on me, but she wasn't looking at my face. Then suddenly I felt heavier, and the odd feeling I had talked about before faded. I looked back down and could see my riggings had appeared back on me. I was speechless and I don't even know what to think.

"Interesting" Blue said "when you wish for your riggings to be gone they disappear, and when you wish for them to be with you they reappear… let me see…" now I could see a mixture of black and white pillars appearing in the air around Blue. They seemed to have come out of nowhere and quickly formed into Blue's lounge chair like riggings "hmm, this will be very useful"

I was still just speechless as I was just confused on what Blue meant and what was happening. But I could just see Blue's riggings disappear like how mine had before and she went back to looking at the panel near her. It took me a little longer to realize what happened, though not to a full extent of how and why. But I at least could understand that I could summon my riggings when I want to, and I could make them disappear when I want to.

So now after entering the room, after making my riggings disappear again, I could see that there was a long control panel with buttons, and knobs, and levers, I could see Blue was currently examining it. The rest of the room was actually rather homely compared to the other places I had been. The walls were made out of a dark brown wood, there was a green carpet through the entire room, there was a brown couch, along with a bookshelf next to the wall, and in the middle of the room there was a large table that connected to the ground, with drawers. On the large table there were many papers, which I decided to check out while Blue checked out the control panel.

When I checked out the papers, they seemed to be documents, though the writing seemed to be some kind of artificial writing system, probably so anyone who wasn't supposed to read it, couldn't, even if they got their hands on it. But the odd thing was that I did understand the writing. Most of the papers talked about more orders for I-class, Ni-class, Na-class, He-class, and so on. Then there seemed to be blueprints for said classes in a drawer in the table, all the designs seemed to match up with the odd shark things that we've seen before.

"Hey Blue, look what I found" I say so I show her what I've got so far. She came over and I handed one of the papers to her, then she mumbled it aloud to herself. Though while she read it I started to check the other drawers of the table.

"Hmm, so those things outside are ships… from what these keep saying" Blue said while I could hear her flipping through different papers "these things are called 'Monster Abyssals'... well at least it's useful to know what they are"

While she was speaking I was still looking through the drawers, until I found something interesting. Three papers, with three different sketches of the so-called 'Monster Abyssals' on them, and a description. I read through them silently "Now hear this Blue" I say after I finish reading "'The X-class destroyer is a Monster Abyssal, a mass produced ship by the Trench Abyssals. They are fast, maneuverable, and strong, possessing a fast firing 127 millimeter gun, though they seem to lack torpedoes, though they are also immune to torpedoes unless caught off guard while submerged. They can be described as a large jellyfish like creature, no bigger than an I-class, with a large glowing orange eye, with an orange glowing sphere underneath the head, and a black cone, underneath the orange sphere, with multiple tentacles coming out of it, along with a destroyer caliber gun attached to the bottom of the cone'" I handed her the piece of paper and look at the other sketches.

"Well that would explain why it didn't kill me, if it is a Trench Abyssal, but why did it attack you?"

"I don't know" I said "perhaps it was just confusion and mistook me for a threat" though now as I read one of the other sketches I could see something interesting. It was the sketch of the first creature I had met when I was underwater. I quietly read aloud the description "'The Po-class frigate is a mass produced Monster Abyssal, produced by the Trench Abyssals. They are fast, maneuverable, and stealthy, but are weak compared to many other monster Abyssals. They are black in color and about 51 centimeters in diameter. They share an appearance with jellyfish, with an opening on the top of their head with an orange flame. Below the head is a fast firing 105 millimeter gun, with two long tentacles that extend out of the head'" I paused for a moment "huh" I said as I laid down the sketches, not checking out the third sketch. Now I went over to the control panel, while I could see Blue was still looking through the papers.

The panel had different knobs and switches on it. I fiddled with a few to see what would happen, and we could only hear a few faint rattling sounds around us, though they didn't warrant much of a response from either of us. Now as I flipped a line of four switches, the lights of the entire light system of the factory suddenly went on. I blinked a bit from the sudden shock of getting the lights switched on, but it didn't last too long. "Ah it's bright now" I say aloud.

"Yeah" Blue said quietly.

"Hey, have you found anything that might help us yet?" I asked as I continued to fiddle with the control panel.

"No, not yet" she answered, before she seemed to start checking the drawers that I didn't check out "most of these seem to just seem to be orders for more ships…" she trailed off the last part, before I heard the loud rustling of paper.

I looked to see what looked to be a large piece of paper, that Blue was spreading out across the table. I came over to see what it was, and could see it was a map.

"This might be useful" Blue said, as I could see her starting to examine it.

I did the same and could see a map with blue parts that signified water, and parts that were green that signified land. Across the massive expanse of a blue ocean, written in bold black letters 'Pacific Ocean' two main continents seemed to surround the ocean. At one side was labeled "North America" opposite of it was labeled "Asia" and in between were several islands that seemed to have labels printed on, and labels that were written on by perhaps a pen.

One island in almost the exact middle of the Pacific was labeled "Midway Atoll" with "Northern Eagle'' underneath. The same happened with many other islands. Iwo Jima being Eastern Dragon, Samoa being Eastern Cross, Attu being Northern Shark, and so on and so forth. Then there were a few interesting ones, like Guam, which was labeled Eastern Lion, but also had another word below it "ABANDONED" a few others were labeled this way, like Okinawa, Palau, and so on.

"well this would be useful, if we knew where we were on this map" I said with a little frustration in my voice, since we had a map, but we don't even know where we are. I also stepped away from the table for a moment to think.

"Wait" Blue suddenly said. I turned back around to look at her and saw her putting a finger on a word in the western Pacific Ocean "The Mariana Trench. That's what we Trench Abyssals know as The Trench. I forgot the name before, but I remember it now"

"So?" I said as I stepped back towards the table. Though before Blue could answer, I realized what it meant, though Blue still spoke.

"We both probably woke up in The Trench, and I remember that I traveled eastward while I was wandering. I only traveled less than a day before I found that island. Then it has been like a day or so since we set out from that island" Blue paused for a moment.

Though now I continued what I had realized "so… we can probably find out where we're by where we originated from, and which direction we've went"

"Yes, exactly that" Blue said as we looked at each other. Though now she looked back down and pointed with her finger to the map "the only two islands near The Trench seem to be Guam or the Northern Mariana Islands. Which probably means we both woke up near the Southern tip of The Trench. And going out East from those two islands is this" now her finger lay on the word "ABANDONED" underneath Wake Island "it seems to be the only island in the area, going eastward from those two islands, for at least for several hundred kilometers"

"So you think this place is Wake Island?"

She nodded and responded "yep, I think so"

"So where do we go now?" I asked as I examined the map, and saw several lines on the two big continents that showed the territories of a few countries. One country that caught my attention was in North America, and had two labels, but this time both of them were printed on. The country I was looking at was labeled "United States of America" and just beneath it was also labeled "Eagle Union"

"Well, I'd think going back to The Trench would be good, since that is where we came from, and we might find more Trench Abyssals like ourselves" she stated "but I do see the problem that there's only two islands there and they seem to be abandoned if this map is true, so it might be best to go to an island that isn't abandoned" Now as she spoke I scanned the map over again to see any locations that might be a possibility for us to go to.

There was a brief silence between the two of us, before I pointed at Midway Atoll "what about here?" I asked "seems decently close to here, and perhaps it isn't abandoned. And even if it is, we could use it as a jumping off point to go somewhere else. Like this island chain called… Hawaii, or North America"

Again there was a brief silence as I could see Blue thinking. Then she nodded "that sounds like a good plan for now" she said "though let's check around the rest of the island before we set off"

"Alright" I say in a more upbeat tone, since we now have at least a plan for us to follow.

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Author's note:

Sorry it took a while to get this out.

I tried a few different things in this chapter, so it took a while to get this out. I didn't expect this one to be +5,000 words. And I also kinda already got through the majority of the next chapter, so… yeah.

Anyway, what do you guys think of the story so far? Comment on what you think of it. And I hope you like it, I'll see you in the next chapter! :P