XXXX December 25th
Russia, Syria
"Christmas in Russia and Syria. Couldn't get any worse." A woman groaned, picking herself up from the snowy ground during the snow.
10:15.
She was lost in the middle of the snowy forest where bears normally attack while delivering some Christmas presents.
As she said Russia and Syria in the same sentence, both Russia and Syria collaborated into one big country as it became Russia's colonised country.
"Fucking hell… Why at that time, I always ended up in a bad situation right now. Fuck you Syria and fuck America!" A woman shouted as she held grudges against certain places, knowing that she's obviously Russian.
Why isn't she calling for help? The truth is that she forgets to charge her phone and she lost track of her location.
"Damn higher ups… I need a pay rise when this is over… Of all the abuse, rape and shit the kanmusu gets for making a simple mistake, I need to quit this shithole!" A disgruntled brunette of a woman sighed as she lit up her cigarette.
Afterwards, she heard a banging noise which was in front of her as it sounded like cannons followed by guns.
"The hell is this?" A woman asked.
Something from the distance had caught her attention as she followed the noises by leaving her crashed car.
Unless she finds a way to survive in this wasteland with trees.
Finally, she witnessed some red stuff on the snowy ground and on the trees as it looked like a bear attack.
After that she saw a couple of men in military suits carrying their guns as they searched.
"Hm? Miss Plisetsky? What are you doing in the forest?" Soldier A asked.
"Haha, funny story, I crashed my car, so I'm lost." Plisetsky answered.
"Gee… Every time, you're always that incompetent. You're giving the higher ups a bad name!" Soldier B shouted.
"Easy there, buddy, she's just an amateur who hates Americans, that's all." Soldier A called as he put his arm between both Soldier B and Plisetsky.
"Yeah, but they're our allies and she also hated Syria after the collaboration! She's just a spiteful bitch!"
But Plisetsky didn't take it too kindly.
"Hey. You got anything bad you say to me, you cunts!? If so, then I'll blow your brains out with a gun I owned!" Plisetsky growled.
"Let's just leave her. Hibiki is still on the run." Said Soldier A as he and his friend left.
"Hibiki?" Plisetsky recognised that name, considering the obvious and she knew her history ever since WWII.
After the duo left, Plisetsky is going the opposite direction as the noise is coming from a trail of blood.
Then she can see a silhouette right in front of her; A silhouette of a little girl.
"Who are you?" Plisetsky asked while pulling out her handgun.
"Ah. Another higher up… Otvratitel'nyy." A young girl, who is Hibiki, called out of disgust after witnessing Plisetsky.
"Yes, I am a higher up. So you're Hibiki, a Japanese destroyer who became Verniy after the loss of the war?" Plisetsky called.
"Hmph. Don't come any closer, demon. You're no better than the abyssals." Hibiki kai sounded a little bitter as she summoned and equipped her bloodstained [12.7cm twin gun mount model A kai 2] cannon by pointing at a human.
Hibiki is revealed to be bloodstained as she killed some humans around her.
Plisetsky can understand Hibiki's rebellion against the higher ups as she refused to be the victim of their abuse.
Seeing as Plisetsky is physically weak against a shipgirl, she still had some brains to counter a shipgirl's inhuman ability.
"How about a deal? I may be a higher up, but what if I quit being one?" Plisetsky offered.
"Huh? And why didn't you quit before?" Hibiki asked.
"Money. That's all I need to raise my son, kanmusus and kansens." Plisetsky answered.
"Son? You're a mother?"
"Relax. My son, Dmitri, was born out of love… Apparently." Plisetsky sighed as she lit another cigarette in her own mouth. "I also work at a Northern Parliament which was part of Azur Lane's bullshittery."
"I see." Hibiki lowered her cannon as Plisetsky did the same. "You're the Komandir of this country's navy. And what's Azur Lane?"
"I dunno? Could be some sort of abyssal or the higher ups' mindfuckery. It's actually where Northern Parliament is a part of."
Hibiki halted as she realised that Plisetsky wanted to leave the higher ups just as much as she did.
"I need your gun." Hibiki raises her bloodstained hand as she's waiting for Plisetsky to hand over a firearm.
"Uh… Okay? But you're not going to shoot me, right?"
"No." Hibiki picked up a woman's corpse as the woman was shot by cannon shells which Hibiki used.
Finally she snatched Plisetsky's ID card as it reads in Russian 'Maria Plisetsky' as Мария Плисецкая, then shoot a corpse as it stained a card in blood.
"There. Then people will think you're murdered." Said Hibiki.
"So that means I'm free?" Maria asked.
"Yes."
"There goes my cash. But whatever, I'll do anything to get paid."
"Khorosho."
"Wanna smoke?" Maria asked while holding a pack of cigarettes.
"No thank you, Komandir."
"Considering we met, you're very fluent in Russian."
"It's a secret." Hibiki said.
"Well, I'll introduce you to a few kanmusus such as Verniy, Gangut and Tashkent, along with the kansens. My secretary in the Northern Parliament is Avrora, the kansen." Maria sighs again while stretching herself. "Fuck Christmas. At least I have another korabl' to raise without modernising."
"Khorosho."