AN: Chapter 1 is here. I wish I could have written more, but I've run dry of ideas for this chapter. I will try to update regularly. Also, I fixed the goddamn formatting.

Sea of Japan

Hiroshima Prefecture

Kure Naval District

Rainy Season

"Hacchan! Hurry up, you're falling behind!" A chipper I-19, Iku, giggled, making flips in the water. "Has it been raining a lot lately? Iku is always underwater so I didn't really notice it."

"Ah, the ocean is great, dechi!" I-58, Goya, turned her back to the bottom of the sea and floated along the ocean current.

"I won't lose to anyone on long voyages!" I-8, Hachi, called out from behind a rock, swimming past Iku at an extremely fast pace.

"This isn't a race, Hacchan!" Iku pouted.

"Hey, hey, hey, Nimu hasn't seen Mole-chan lately… where is she?" I-26, Nimu, swam up to Iku and asked the purple-haired submarine.

All of the submarines stopped dead in the water.

"Mole-chan, dechi? She's up there." Goya pointed to the surface of the ocean where Maruyu was now floating towards.

"Don't call me Moley. I'm Maruyu! H-huh? My body's floating, why is that!?" Maruyu flailed her arms, which caused the Kanmusu to rise towards the surface even faster, despite her slow speed.

Nimu sighed, "Nimu will go collect Mole-chan…" She swam up to the surface of the ocean and started to pull the still flailing Submarine down with her.

"Huh? N-No! I keep on sinking!" Maruyu started failing her arms even more wildly, accidentally hitting Nimu in the face.

"Kyah, It's not good! Go underwater! Go underwater immediately!" Nimu yelled, pulling Maruyu down with one hand, the other holding her nose, where she was hit.

"Would you two stop messing around, dechi? We're here to Orel, not play, dechi!" Goya yelled at the black haired Maruyu and blonde Nimu.

Both submarines looked back at Goya with an apologetic look on their faces. Goya sighed and turned towards Iku,

"Have we found anything yet, dechi?"

"Iku hasn't found anything yet."

"Acht... no, Hachi, has found something!" Hachi, who was now at the bottom of the sea, waved to her submarine friends.

The rest of the Submarine fleet looked at each other and dove down to meet Hachi.

"What do you think it is?" Iku asked as the fleet swam around a rock.

"It looks like… a Kanmusu… but it looks like it's still functional, dechi." Goya put her hand in front of her mouth, thinking.

"Should we bring it back?" Nimu asked, still holding on to Maruyu to prevent her from floating away.

Iku nodded, and with the help of the fleet, sans Nimu and Maruyu, carried the strange object back to their base.

"The fleet's back isn't it!" Iku yelled as the submarines surfaced in front of their admiral.

"Oh? You're back already. How was the sortie?" The admiral bent down near the water to speak to Iku.

"We didn't find much, but we did find this, and it's heavy, dechi!" Goya pulled the strange Kanmusu like object onto land.

The admiral's eyes narrowed in question, "Isn't that a Destroyer Kanmusu in critical health? Girls, please bring her to the docks." The admiral looked at the Submarines who looked disappointed and annoyed that they had to carry the heavy Destroyer once again. "Or on second thought, I'll carry her. You girls go get resupplied," the admiral picked up the unconscious Destroyer.

"Okay!" All Submarines spoke at the same time and swam off to the docks.

When the Submarines were gone, the admiral looked at the Kanmusu in his arms, "this is an Akatsuki-class… Hibiki? What was she doing at the bottom of the ocean, and how is she not completely sunk?" He pondered out loud as a small fairy popped out of Hibiki's shirt collar.

"I'm an Emergency Repair Personnel!" The fairy chimed. "My friends and I prevented this one from sinking!" The fairy then exploded into a cloud of dust, causing the admiral to cough.

"She's still heavily damaged. I'll take her to the docks and get her repaired." The admiral nodded and carried Hibiki off.