With the responsible ones:

"I can't believe NO ONE saw her go! What was all this security even FOR?!" Lao groused, struggling to keep pace with Chitose's longer strides. The two Kanmusu were searching the nearby streets with help from the commodore's marines, so far, fruitlessly.

"They probably weren't expecting her to leave, they were just trying to keep the civilians away." Chitose reasoned.

"Still! How do you miss an 18-thousand tonne Submarine going down the halls!" Lao saw Chitose's deadpan look, "On land! I mean on land! She wasn't even underwater this time!"

"You KNOW humans cant see our steel-hull forms, the man at the desk didn't even notice her when we came in, remember? He had to lean over his desk just to see her."

Lao held both of her hands up to her temple, trying to rub away the incoming headache, "Aaarg...! At least the other Abyssals are staying put. The last thing we need is for them to scatter off looking for her."

Chitose could only nod at that. What a nightmare that would be. Luckily the trio of ships were content to read the magazines in the waiting room, supervised, of course.

Pheakdei, who was easily keeping pace with both of the shorter women, leaned into his combat radio, listening to someone, probably organizing a search with his men.

Chitose fretted, "Ah! I don't know what she was thinking! She's never been in a fully-fledged city alone before! She's probably lost! If only we had a way to..." Chitose slowly came to a stop, having glanced at the Cambodian on his radio. and simply stood in the middle of the road, staring at nothing in particular. Pham Ngu Lao continued on for a few steps, before stopping as well, turning to look at the bigger Seaplane Tender.

"What's the matter with you?"

"I am an idiot."

Lao was taken aback at that, "What? Why?"

Instead of answering directly, Chitose merely spoke aloud as she switched to Georgia's radio frequency, "Georgia, come in, over?"

Lao gained a look of understanding, before smacking herself in the face, "Oh, my, god. We're idiots."

...

"Georgia, please respond, over."

...

There was a fumbling noise, followed shortly after by the sub in question's voice, "Hello! Welcome to Abyssal Subways! May I take your order? Over."

Chitose sagged in relief, "Georgia!"

"Sure thing! One Georgia-sub coming right up! What do you want as toppings?"

"What?"

"I suggest the sweet onion teriyaki sauce personally. We're all out of whole-wheat Georgia's unfortunately, you'll have to get the white hull if you still wanna order, over."

Chitose gathered her wits, "Georgia this is serious! Where are you?! You just disappeared!"

"Just went out for some fresh air! I'm at the waterpark."

Chitose turned to the Frigate and human next to her, "She's at the waterpark."

Lao scrunched her brows together, "There's a waterpark here?" She shook her head, before translating to the Commodore in Vietnamese. He nodded, before gesturing down the road. Lao started off.

"Come on, its this way!"

With the not-so responsible one:

I screamed in delight as I zipped down the waterslide, arms thrown to the air. I could hear frantic screaming coming from inside me, so I guessed my crew was having a fun time as well. I splashed into the pool and simply let myself sink to the bottom for a second, before my still-emptied ballast tanks wrenched me back up to the surface. I bobbed for a second, giggling to myself, before one of the adults made a sweeping motion for me to get out of the way of the slide for the next person.

I dog-paddled to the edge of the pool before hauling myself out. I went over to the edge of another, and now that there were no children in danger of flattening themselves on my hull coming down the slide I took a moment to just bask, kicking my feet idly while readjusting a stray strand of hair that had escaped its messy bun back under my awesome new hat.

I'd changed into some swimming trunks and a shirt that I'd gotten at the shop, using the money I'd probably stolen while-

"Do you have, any idea, how terrifying that was?" My Captain asked.

"It's just a slide."

"To YOU! Imagine being in a giant metal can going off the edge of the Niagra falls!"

"That sounds awesome, though you wouldn't get much of a view..."

"My SONAR technician threw up at her station!"

"Ewwww that's inside meeeeee..."

My conversation with the voice in my head was interrupted by a girl, a teenager really, nervously sitting down at the edge of the pool next to me.

"សួស្តី?"

"What?"

The girl paused, "E-English?"

"Yeah."

The girl, a mousy, bespeckled thing with black hair, seemed to struggle for a moment.

"A-Are you alright? You're really pale..."

I looked down at myself, lifting up an arm to look at it, I made a show of being surprised, "Wow! I really am! I guess that sunscreen is better than I thought it was!"

The girl looked confused, "Sunscreen?", she shook herself, pointing with her thumb at a younger girl with the same general looks who looked like she was trying very hard not to be noticed, "Sorry, my sister said that you looked like an Abyssal, said she wouldn't get in the pool until I asked... sorry."

I looked at her, giving the impression of being taken-aback, "Abyssal? In the middle of the Capital? In a water park?" There was muffled laughter in my CAC.

The girl shrugged shyly, "I know, but she's young, she wanted me to make sure, sorry if I insulted you."

I waved away her apology as I leaned back, legs swinging like a pendulum as I kicked the water, "Don't worry about it! People call me an Abyssal all the time! You get used to it after a while with a skin condition like mine."

The girl winced, before offering more apologies as she scampered off, probably to give her sister an earful.

When she was out of earshot I finally burst into giggles, flopping onto my back for a minute as I let out my mirth.

"Georgia, please respond, over."

Oh, there was the fun police, right on cue! Better respond, though I HAD to mess with her at least a little...

I watched a man eat a sandwich from across the lot as I thought of what to say...

With Chitose:

The Commodore stood guard at the entrance with some of his men as Lao and Chitose entered. Well, after they paid the entrance fee. The two Ship-girls passed through the crowd, heads on a swivel as they tried to spot the Abyssal submarine in the crowded civilian recreation-center. Which, Chitose took a moment to reflect, was a lot better than it sounded. They stopped next to a pink castle, laughing human children sliding down its built-in slide into the water.

"Georgia, where are you?" Chitose said over her radio.

"I already told you! The waterpark."

Lao, who was tuned in on the same frequency, huffed. "We know that! We're already at the entrance!"

"I know, I can see you."

The Frigate froze, eyes darting left and right as Chitose sighed.

"Georgia, come here."

"I don' wanna!"

"Georgia!"

"You're not my real dad!"

"What does that have to do wi- Georgia just come here!"

"Hmmmmm-nope! You gotta find me first!"

Chitose crossed her arms crossly, knowing Georgia would see it. "I'm not trying to find a submarine in a waterpark, that's basically an alternate euphemism for 'needle in a haystack'"

"OK OK, fine, ya big spoilsport."

The pair of Kanmusu waited for a minute, but when no submarine appeared, Chitose raised her on radio again. "Well? Are you coming or not?"

"I'm already here."

That wasn't on the radio...

Chitose looked down, Georgia's head poked out of the water a few feet from where they were standing. She waved cheerily, a foam pirate hat sitting on her head, along with a shiny plastic eyepatch to replace the old rag previously tied around her head.

"Jump in! The water's great!"

Chitose stepped out onto the pool, before bending down and bopping Georgia lightly on the head.

"Ow! Hey, quit it!" The Submarine protested, as Chitose straightened again.

"Do you know how worried I was? I thought you were lost!"

"I get it I get it! Sheesh! No need to make a big scene over it!"

"I am not'making a scene!"

"Then explain the gawkers!"

Chitose looked over, and sure enough, the surrounding civilians were staring in wonder at her. She wondered why for a moment, before looking down and realizing she was standing on water.

"Oh, right, humans don't do that."

And of course, Georgia had to have something to say to that, "I heard a carpenter did it once!"

Chitose looked down at Georgia, shaking her head ruefully even as she stepped back on solid ground. "Don't even, now come on, we have to get back to the embassy, we left the girls there and Kami-knows what they've gotten up to while I was chasing you around. After that, we can talk with La-"

Chitose had turned to indicate the Frigate, but she was no-where to be found.

"...Lao?"

"I-I'm up here!"

Chitose and Georgia looked up, to where Lao sat on the Castle's roof, legs carefully folded so as not to not show anything to any passerby below. A couple of the children were looking at her oddly, even as they lined up for the slide.

Her face reddened at the pair's deadpan stares, "You startled me alright?!"