With the Surface Fleet:

Georgia's one visible eye snapped to awareness, and the first thing she saw was the stick hovering dangerously close to it. She jerked back, batting the branch out of Lao's hands, making the small girl jump.

"AAH!" Georgia screamed in startled fright.

"AGH!" Lao screamed in fear.

"AAAH/AGH!-"

Chitose put her hands over both of the smaller girls' mouths, "Stop, screaming!" she whisper-yelled.

"HmmmhHMHMhmm..." Chitose took her hand off of Lao's mouth, "Sorry." The Frigate said.

Chitose just nodded, before-

'Liiiick'

Chitose's hand darted away from Georgia like it had caught fire, "Ew!" Chitose wiped the palm of her hand off on her skirt, "Georgia that's disgusting!"

"Made you let go, didn't it?" The Submarine asked rhetorically.

"So what did you find? You were out for a while..." Hakone said, stepping closer.

Georgia grinned, "I managed to connect to a couple of my girls, they escaped their cell in the brig and are on their way to the hanger," she gesticulated, "long story short, she's going to be having a lot of internal problems soon, which means we have our opening," She looked at the Abyssal ships, "what do you say, girls? Ready for some surface action?"

"We're with you Georgia!" Hakone held up a fist, the blue light of her eyes flaring with her excitement.

"You know where they are?" Lao said, finally getting the gumption to rejoin the conversation.

Georgia nodded, "Yeah, my SEAL's transmitters are active, I can lead us right to them."

Lao nodded, "Well, we got that going for us at least, you lead the way," she turned to face the rest of the fleet, "alright girls, turn your bridge lights off, Anne... you, may want to turn off more than that."

The other ships did as asked, lights blinking off one after another as Anne looked over at the Frigate confusedly, "W̴h̴y̴?̵"

Lao gestured downwards, "There's light shining through your cracks."

Anne looked down, and sure enough, a soft blue glow poked out of numerous pinholes on her torso, where her hastily repaired battle damage let her interior lights shine through, "O̵h̵." She turned off those lights too, and the forest was suddenly bathed in darkness.

"I cannot see a thing!" Diane said, taking a cautious step forward with her arms outstretched.

Lao spoke up, "That's the point, the enemy will probably have their bridge lights still on, it'll ruin their night vision. Just give yourself time to get acclimated."

"I'll lead the way!" Georgia said, floating forward, before- 'SmackKRAK' "Gakk!" Bumping into a tree branch.

Georgia floated back, rubbing pieces of bark off of her face, "Stupid tree, you made me look bad!" She shook her fist at the foliage.

"Aum, Georgia? Can't you just use your RADAR? It may not penetrate very far, but it will keep you from running into anything, at least." Chitose said, putting a hand to Hakone's shoulder to steady herself.

"Oh yeah, right," Georgia blinked as her technicians started feeding her short-range navigational data, "Oh wow this is loads better, OK!" she put her forearms up in a scissor motion, then closed them together, like a film directors clapper board, "Take Two," She started forwards, this time skirting around the tree, "I'll lead the way!"

Lao lightly pushed Chitose ahead of her, "Keep close to Georgia, people, if you're having trouble grab the shoulder of the ship in front."

They did so, and the fleet was soon underway through the undergrowth.

"There they are."

Georgia pointed ahead, though it was unnecessary, the light illuminating the Abyssal vessels may as well have been a lighthouse on a clear night. They were in a small clearing, the Tsu and Ri staying well behind the Re as she appeared to be clutching at herself, arms crossed as she bent over, as if in pain.

Lao caught up to Georgia, kneeling down as she took position in the bushes, "Spread out, move slowly, and for god's sake don't bumble into a tree and snap it in half."

Georgia stuck out her tongue, but wisely didn't respond verbally, and the fleet slowly started to disperse.

Lao came in over the radio then, her body remaining silent as she spoke, "When we're in position, I'll give the signal and we can put them all down."

Georgia responded through her own, "Don't target the Re-class's tail, that's where my girls are"

"Don't tell me that, biggest gun I have is a 5" multi. I wouldn't be able to do dick-all to that armor anyway, I'll target the Tsu, see if I can tag her in the bridge." Lao responded, creeping to the left, so she could get a better shot off on the Light Cruiser.

"Anne, you and Diane target the Re, Chitose, the Ri, Hakone, you help with that."

Georgia silently floated after Lao, her body almost hidden as she crouched down in her Rigging's cockpit,"I'll see if I can help with the Tsu."

Lao looked at the Submarine next to her, an incredulous look on her face as she responded over radio. It was very odd to hear her voice while being able to see that her lips weren't moving. "With what? I mean, all of your surface weapons are long-range missiles," she gestured between Georgia and the small enemy fleet, "I'd say this is pretty short-range, if you ask me."

Georgia rose out of her cockpit slightly, enough so that Lao could see her shrug,"I'll make it work, don't worry about it."

"That doesn't fill me with confide-"

"Fee-Fi-Fo-FUM!"

The planning was interrupted by the Re, who had suddenly straightened out of her pained posture. Getting the attention of the two enemy Cruisers, who looked over at the tailed girl from where they'd been standing.

"I smell the oil of a Kanmusu!" The Re continued, the pained grimace making way for a crazed grin.

"She knows we're here?!"

"Be she afloat, or be she sunk" The Re's head swiveled, before stopping to look at where Chitose and Hakone were hidden, "I'll grind her hull 'to useless JUNK!"

"Shit!" Lao said aloud, simultaneously coming in over the radio, "Chitose, she can see you!"

Anything that Chitose could have said in reply was drowned out by cannon fire, the Re-Class opening up with a salvo into the brush. Cannon fire immediately answered it as Diane and Anne opened up as well, and within an eyeblink, they had a full-on firefight on their hands.

The two Cruisers scrambled, not entirely sure where they were taking fire from, but willing to take the Re's cue. And so they started firing into the brush indiscriminately, the 5" and 6" shells were apparently loaded for high explosive, and after scything through a few trees exploded. Turning large areas of forest into leafy confetti. Hakone responded to the fire in kind, firing off her own secondaries at the Tsu while she lined up a shot with her 8" cannon.

Meanwhile, Chitose was lying prone on the ground, having practically flung herself downwards when the Re's turrets had traversed towards her, the section of forest behind her was now doing a reasonable impression of a freshly cut lawn. She went up to one knee, and, seeing Hakone firing on the Light Cruiser, joined in, adding her own 12.7 cm guns to the fire going downrange.

The fire cut into the Light Cruiser, her massive hand-Rigging an easy target. But her guns remained operational, and she zeroed in on the muzzle flash from the two ships' cannon fire, she fired another salvo of 5" rounds, one of them taking Chitose in the shoulder, spinning the Japanese woman around and obliterating one of the 12.7cm guns mounted there.

A torpedo sailed out of the dark like a javelin, catching the Cruiser dead in the upper left turret, and detonated close enough to a major breach in her armor to set off the magazine within. The detonation blew the Tsu's left arm off entirely, staggering the ship before she caught herself. She fired off another salvo from her right arms Rigging, but the spray was wild, and the shells pierced the canopy, streaking off into the nights-sky, to detonate in the air as ad-hoc fireworks as Hakone struck her in the upper chest with her 8" triple-mount.

She'd apparently loaded for explosive as well, as the round penetrated her hull dead center of the clavicle before exploding, mulching her boilers from within. The Tsu slumped against her right arms' Rigging, before the entire thing toppled over with a resounding crash.

Meanwhile, the Ri shot at Lao, who had taken a few shots at her bridge with her 5" cannon, she'd missed the first shot, and the Abyssal Heavy Cruiser zeroed in on the flash.

"Shit!" Lao ducked behind a tree, sitting down as she waited for her cannon to reload, before gasping as the tree suddenly became a ragged stump, splintering away close enough to take her pith helmet off.

"Come get some asshole!" The Ri bellowed, firing all her secondaries at the Frigate's last known position blindly as she approached, arm-Rigging outstretched with her 8" cannon sweeping frantically side to side, waiting for another muzzle flash to send the high explosive rounds into.

"O̷K̵"

The Ri turned, "Wha-"

Anne grabbed onto the smaller ship, having swept around her flank during the gunfire and shouting, her hands latched onto the Ri's arm-Rigging, wrenching the barrels up into the air as the Cruiser fired reflexively, the Ri, realizing what was happening after a brief struggle, unlatched her arms from the Rigging they were socketed into, letting Anne hold the turrets as the Ri attacked with her bare hands.

She punched Anne across the face, making her conning tower ring as her head snapped to the side. The force ripped open a few of the weaker welds in her neck, and the heavy ship roared in pain, dropping the Ri's Rigging as she bodily tackled the shorter girl.

The two ships struggled briefly, but Anne's superior tonnage won out, and the big ship latched onto the Cruiser's right arm by the wrist, holding her down by the collar with her other hand. The Ri had a moment of horrified realization before Anne wrenched, ripping the Ri's arm off in a shower of tearing metal and burst pipes, the Ri screamed, before punching Anne in the elbow with her remaining hand, making the larger ship fall forward into a vicious headbutt that crumpled Anne's nose with the sound of a crunching soda can.

Anne rolled off the other girl, clenching her nose in one hand as the Ri made to get up, before stumbling with the sudden loss of limb. Anne, seeing this, stepped forward and came down on the Cruiser's head with her own dismembered arm like a mallet, caving the back of her bridge in.

The Cruiser fell on her face, and didn't rise again.

Anne, stood for a moment, rubbing her crushed nose, before holding out the severed arm she'd used as a bludgeon and giving it a waggle, "T̸h̴e̶r̶e̴,̶ ̵g̴o̷t̴ ̸s̷o̵m̵e̸,̷ ̸h̴a̷p̵p̴y̸?"

The Ri, rather unsurprisingly, didn't respond.

Lao, who had been trying to get a shot in throughout the entire melee, looked a little green as she responded instead, " Y-You DO know you have guns, right?"

Anne shrugged-

Before a not-insignificant portion of her mid-section exploded, 16" shells carrying through one of her boiler rooms, destroying more than a few of the Destroyer-grade Admiralty 3 drums boilers. Lao could see the grinning face of the Re-class through the massive hole blown in Anne's lower body.

Anne looked down, one hand reaching to the edge of the hole, before going stiff and keeling over, her remaining boilers unable to compensate for the loss in power.

"ANNE!" Lao screamed, before looking up at the Re, aiming her 5" gun-turret at the Aviation Battleship "You fucker!"

The Re just laughed-

Meanwhile, Within the Re:

Fairies in a mixture of uniforms, some American, some Japanese, even a few Germans, came pouring out of the side passages, joining the ongoing firefight as they opened up on the SEAL team that had fought its way into the hanger-bay area. The 6 girls held their position, pinned down within a cluster of heavy repair equipment and crates.

"They got us pinned here!" Lisa ducked her head back down, having only been able to squeeze off a short burst with her M4 before being forced back into cover by return fire. "We'll never make it to the control tower at this rate!" there was a shaking as the main cannons somewhere on the ship fired again. Heard even over the roar of gunfire.

Olivia spoke next, "Those cannons are shooting at something, the surface fleet is probably engaging! We have to hurry our asses up!"

Lisa swore, sitting down to reload her carbine, before looking over to where a few Marines had settled into cover around a Mk-2 Abyssal fighter, the aircraft wings were mostly gone, torn away by whatever had made that big hole in the ceiling, but otherwise...

"I've got an idea!" The others not busy trading fire with the Marines looked over, "Jenn, Olivia, pop smoke on that plane and get ready to cover me!" The fairys nodded, and on the count of three, lobbed their nades as evenly as they could in the general direction of the plane.

Lisa waited for the smoke to fully engulf the area, before jumping cover and sprinting forward as fast as her nubby legs could carry her.

Olivia screamed after her, "Are you ins- nevermind I already know the answer!" she turned towards the others, "You heard the woman! Spray 'em down!" The rest of the SEALs doubled their efforts, switching to full auto and burning through their mags to force the enemy into cover.

Lisa ran through the smoke as bullets whizzed past her, sweeping over a crate an enemy Marine was taking cover behind.

"What the he-" "GAK!" she cracked the woman across the jaw with the stock of her rifle, before unloading her magazine into the other three surprised fairies using the cover around the fighter. Lisa let the rifle hang empty from the sling as she quickly climbed up into the aircraft's open cockpit. bullets started pinging off the metal as she closed the open cockpit, looking over the controls frantically.

"Oh man, ohmanohmanohman wheres the on button!?" she looked around, frantically pressing buttons, before she found the ignition. "Come ooooon, ah! There we go!" The engines lit up behind her in a bright blue as the battered machinery whined to life. "Now, where is that... Oh, come on where- AHA!"

She finally managed to get the plane moving, just as the smoke cleared completely, Olivia came in over their personal comms.

"What the hell are you doing!?" the voice was deafened by nearby gunfire for a moment, "That damn thing's not fit to fly! You're a SEAL, not a god-damned BIRD!"

Lisa laughed a little maniacally as she pushed forward and slightly to the side of the throttle, the fighter obligingly beginning to turn as it taxied down the hanger, its whine reached a fevered pitch. "Who said anything about flying!?"

Lisa grabbed the gunnery stick (she didn't even know what to call it!) and flicked the red covering off, tightening her fingers on the triggers.

The twin autocannons mounted under the fighter's nose opened up with a steady 'DurDurDurDurDur!', easily piercing the light cover used by the enemy crew as the heavy rounds turned anyone hit into chunky-salsa. The Abyssal fighter kept turning, filling the air with fire as the enemy were swept away or forced to the ground to avoid the heavy guns.

Lisa came over the comm.

"Stay behind me if you don't wanna be turned into fuckin' hamburger! I can barely see what I'm even shooting at! The cockpits all cracked!"

The SEALs did as they were told, throwing the rest of their smokes as they scampered out of cover, crossing the large hangers as Lisa cackled in the slowly spinning fighter.

"Come on! Come on! EAT IT! HAHAHAHA! EAT IIIIIT!"

"This is insane!" One of the SEALs said.

Olivia didn't even look over as she ran, working with another fairy to practically lift the SEAL with the wounded leg as they hurried along, "Who cares! Path's open, let's go!" They made it to the doors leading to the conning tower. Conveniently perforated by autocannon fire.

"Wub abow her?!" The fairy with the swollen jaw said, thumbing backward at the Abyssal fighter.

Apparently, she could be heard over the comms, because Lisa replied directly, "Don't worry about me! Just go!" The fighter continued its merry-go-round of destruction, "HAHAHA!"

"You heard the woman! Let's move it, people!" Olivia said, opening the door before sweeping in. "Georgia! we are getting access now, how copy? Over!"

The others quickly filed in as Lisa looked back, barely able to make the team out through the cracked windows. She looked down, and saw that the ammo counter was running dangerously low. She looked back up.

"Well If nothing else, I'll see you girls back on the ship." She muttered to herself, before beginning to cackle again as she simply enjoyed the moment.

Outside:

-Before doubling over in pain with a startled gasp, "Gukk!" She looked over at the middle of her tail, before looking back at the slightly quivering Frigate. "I dunno whats going on in there, but it's not gonna be enough to keep me from sinking you."

"Stay away from her, you rude Cretin!" The Re whirled out of the way of a 16" shell as it sailed past, tail acting as a springboard as the Re-class sprang back to the side, dodging another shell.

She then caught a 5" shell from Lao with her teeth.

She spit it off to the side as her tail's main turret swiveled to face the Ta Battleship, "Naughty naughty, I was talking to the small fry-Frigate! Not you!" she fired, sending a 16" shell of her own hurtling at the Ta. Diane fell twirled backward, the shell glancing off her citadel armor, nonetheless leaving a massive dent on the right side of her ribcage as she landed on her ass, clutching her side.

"Oof!"

The Re whistled, "Well well, if it ain't the prodigal daughter! Jersey wants your bridge, 04! And I aim to deliver." She paused then, bringing a finger up to her lips, "Or is it Delicio? I always get those mixed up."

Diane struggled to her knees, gasping as she held her dented side, "You... Must have me confused with someone else. I am GFV Diane, a ship within the fleet of Miss. Georgia."

"AHAHAHAaaa!"

The Re's crazed grin was on full-force after the cackle, "Oh, WOW! That's absolutely hilarious! It's honestly a shame that you aretrying to deceive me." Her lips turned downwards into a frown as she stepped forwards, unheedful of the turrets Diane had trained on her.

"You thought you could just sail away from Jersey's fleet 04?! HUH!?" The Re's eyes didn't leave Diane's, even as another 5" shell from Lao flattened itself on her armor. "Man! Your sistership is gonna be pissed she missed this!" Her tail reared up, turrets swiveling to face the Ta, "Oh well, it's about the time for the tricky traitor Ta to terminate tumultuously!" Her grin came back full-force.

...

"Aaaany time now." The crazed ship said, wondering why her turrets hadn't fired.

"Ī̶̫̫̔̓̔̐̊̄̃̔͌͗͝ ̸̱̘̱̺͖̙͚̂̀͌͊͜d̸̡̢̝͙̹́o̴̢͉̱͗͐͌͗̓̂͝n̸̫͔̞͕̭̜̎̉̂͗̑̍̇̎̃̎̉͂̑̚'̸͕̤̓͐͛̌̾̕̚͘͠ţ̴̗̼̓̅ ̸͕̥͈͛̔͗̽̌̏̎͗̌̈́͐̈́̅̏ͅt̶̪͇͔͍̪̹̗̹̟̮͍̅̏̇͊̈́̚ͅḥ̴̳̜͓̤̜̦͔̌̈́̒̽͜ì̶̱̩̦̼͍͜n̶̨̢͓̤͚̱̙̭̣̳̟̠͙̈́͛̅͌̓͛̽̋̆́͆k̴̼̼̣̇̈̓͒̊̒̏͑ ̶͚̱̒̔̔͊̓̆̚͝s̶̲̩͇̥̀͋̉͝ͅo̶̧̗̲̫̼̰̞̱̺̹͓͒̈́̿̈́͊͗̔̍̓ͅ."

"W-What?" The Re looked over, to where her tail had turned to face her, "Mr. Slithers?! You can talk!?"

The tail cocked its head, as if thinking, before:

"Ň̵̩̇͗̾̔͑͛͛͒̈́̐̋͗͝͝ǫ̷̻̟͍͉͔̣̞̲̺͍̹̑̏̓̏͒̿̋̈̎̓̉͘͜͝ţ̶̧̛͔̟͖̺̜͔̒́̊̄̆̏̎̓̉̎́̿͘͜͜͜ ̸͕̘̪̙̺̭͚̗̖̫̯̍͑̀̑́͆̀̽̎̉̿͒̍́̿q̴̧͙̹͎͕̜̞͙͉̰̐̈́̓̐́̓͘͠͝ư̶̛̛̦͇̤̯̗̖̈́̂̎̀̈̿̓̒̉͠į̴̣͇̼̦͓̓̓̆́̽͋̾̄͌t̶̢̡̢͈͔̠̘̺͎̙̬̎͛̀͝e̶͇̊͑̓͛̈́̌̃͘̚͝͠."

The tail snapped forward like a viper, its massive maw engulfing the Re-Class up past the shoulder, before jerking its head sideways, ripping off the Re's entire upper body in a cacophony of tearing metal and burst pressure vessels. There were several explosions as the Re's primary boilers were ruptured in the tail's mouth, sending shrapnel flying out of the things 'head' as it tore into the main body of the warship.

The Re, now missing everything down to her xiphisternum, swayed for a moment, before collapsing, tail and all.