It has been two days since the other world ship girls decided to follow the kasen of azur lane to their current base. During their voyage things had been mostly peaceful with only a few mass produced ships being encountered as they patrolled the waters. The fleet knew that this little bit of peace was temporary and they were prepared to manifest their rigging's at a moment's notice.
Olympia and Long Island were taking turns between flying cap and long range scouting patrol to try and avoid running into any more trouble on the way home. This system was working wonders till the radio crackled to life
"Mayday, Mayday,Mayday this foxhound we are trapped by an enemy submarine fleet and mass produced surface fleet requesting immediate assistance".
This caused everyone to perk up and immediately try to figure out the origin of the transmission. After ten minute they managed to track the signal to an island near the base. This revelation did not sit well with three of the kasen as it likely meant that a few of their comrades were injured and the bases was possibly damaged again.
Repulse in her ever sunny out look spoke, " well at least we can remove this thorn in our side. I always prefer physical things over mental".
"Well spoken repulse, let's show them how we do things in our world". Grant states with a grin on her face.
"Good now we just need a plan to end this quickly and rescue the two kasen there". Moskva bellowed
"I will take point with Grant and I will bombard the ships to let her land and rescue them" Moskva continued to bellow
"Laffey is confused about landing the ship".
"Let me explain."Stingray said with an evil grin.
And so one explanation later stingray had managed to make laffey head spin with knowledge that two of their new comrades could take their vessel out of the water whether it be on tracks like Grant had or legs as stingray claimed to have. This also was heard by Long Island and Repulse who were imagining what a terror it would be to encounter a large ground of these vessel ashore. For everyone else they did not need to imagine such a thing and witnessed that very act from all sides during the war. Thus it was noticed that Moskva and Olympia both shivered and grabbed the back of their necks as the memory washed over them.
Once that was over the main problem they encountered was hammering the details of the plan. The main problem was how to effectively split the enemy in order for Grant to have any chance of reaching said ships on the island. In the end it was decided that Moskva would be the spearhead shielding Grant much to her chagrin while the flanks would be covered by the two carriers. Lastly ant submarine duty would be pulled by Laffey on the left flank and Stingray on the right. The hydrofoils then asked what they could do to help and it was decided that reconnaissance would be the most helpful thing outside of providing an effective aa screen and jamming specific targets they could perform. With the meeting being complete they all moved to their respective positions with the Twins racing forward to scout the area ahead for the enemy that could be lurking anywhere over the horizon.
As the twins raced away with their rigging still deployed and the cap fighters drawing closer to the carrier in order to try and minimize the enemy's ability to know what was coming. This makes the twins feel important knowing that the burden of identifying the enemy and relaying the plan to the two trapped ships falls on their shoulders.
This did not stop H20 from frowning as she asked, " hey sis do you think that there anyway we can receive a retrofit so we could be of more use to the fleet when it comes to surface combat".
"You know that it is unlikely we will ever receive one since we do not have room for a larger gun, nor do we have the ability to deploy torpedoes safely due to our high speed being faster than said weapon sister".
" Well I can hope right now we could still get something that combines our chain gun with a multi gunner turret or maybe the prism laser system since the guns from the pacifier afv are too large for us".
"Well sister you can hope for the first two but right for now we should focus on the task at hand since the rest are counting on us," HY21 admonished her sister.
So the sisters after their conversation continued in silence or as silently as a kasen on skates for shoes could and about an hour of travel later the neared location they began to see a fleet of ships consisting of what looked non siren in nature. In fact they appeared to be made by human hands. This raised an alarm in the hydrofoil sister's head as they began to scan more intensely for anyone that does not match the description of whom they are here to retrieve. Eventually they
found someone that was wearing a ninja outfit with what appeared to be a partial oni mask.
"This is recon reporting that we have seen the enemy fleet and they are busy pounding the island. We also have found one ninja ship girl with a half oni mask on. She also seem s to be focused on the island" HY20 reported gleefully.
"Good job return to safer position as we move closer to attack range our eta is ninety minutes till attack range an hour ten till we reach the rendezvous point with you" Moskva congratulated them
HY21 replied, "will be waiting at the rendezvous point our eta 15 minutes till we are there will keep an eye out for any more enemies as we head over" .
" Okay Olympia and long Island sortie your air wings and soften them up I am expecting some ships will break off and pursue the twins," Grant barked
This caused the gears in all of their heads to turn as even though it may be one or two ships that may leave to pursue the twins they still need to be taken out. Although the Kasen now identified as Akatsuki by Repulse is a wild card they were hot expecting to encounter it did not change the plan too much. The only plan change they really did not want to do was have the two carriers strike the enemy fleet early in order to give Foxhound and whatever company she had a chance to retaliate.
"Let me set my drone control to multi-target so they all don't just attack in a line at the nearest ship," Olympia said to herself.
As she moved to her island which rested on her right hip behind the box with miniature blackout missiles sticking out of it.+As she did that her flight deck on her other hip glowed as it registered the change. It was now that she was glad to be the test bed for the recent upgrade that was to be rolled out to the fleet in a few months since it would allow the carriers of the allies to be more deadly to the enemy than before.
With that done both Long Island and Olympia deployed their aircraft and sent them in the direction of the island and the Hydrofoil twins. While that was going on Laffey and Stingray
Deployed their rigging's in order to start sweeping for the submarines that they know are lurking in the area.
Long Island also sent over the surprise she had been carrying and that she had been saving for a day like today. She guided her ASW planes to be in between the destroyer and corvette.
Once that was done the two ships on ASW duty started to do a zig-zag search pattern in order to catch any submarines that think they are sneaky.
Soon enough they found some mass produced submarines and promptly blew them out of the water with overwhelming depth charges. That was until one of the blips darted sideways in a way that no submarine should be able to. This caused Stingray to get more aggressive in pursuing the unknown entity. Everyone could visibly see the electricity coming off the mad scientist of a corvette.
"This is getting ridiculous I will just end this with a discharge in order to knock out whomever this
Is that thought that they could sneak up on us,``Stingray said smugly as the electricity flowed from her into the it hit the intended target as she picked a sudden burst movement as the unknown blip rockets to surface as a result of being shocked by Stingray discharge. To reveal a girl with light blue hair and oni horns and a swimsuit that resembles the top of a sailor uniform that school girls would wear. What was even more curious was the tube on her back as stingray could not grasp what it could be for. Thoughts started to race through her head about what size torpedo could be deployed. That was until she saw the blue haired girl's rigging float to the surface and she saw the crane attached to it. That when it hit Stingray that this blue hair girl was carrying aircraft and if she had aircraft that meant they were spotted the whole time either by her and her aircraft or other submarines.
"Guys I think we might have walked into a trap or someone expecting to have entered a trap," She said to the rest of the group over her radio.
This has the natural effect of causing everyone to speed up their actions. Including the sleepy Laffey who could be seen racing around putting depth charges into every that remotely resemble a sub on sonar to great effect. Soon the area was clear of enemy submarines leaving Long Island to send her ASW aircraft to Guard the Hydrofoils who no doubt would be feeling some sort of heat by now since no one could raise them on the radio.
Back with the Hydrofoils they had been dancing all over as they continuously avoided shells and torpedoes coming at them from multiple directions. This predicament has been going relentlessly for at least a good half hour HY20 thought as she dodged another shell from the nearby destroyer. This kept going for another five minutes until the familiar roar of jet engines could be heard coming from behind this was followed by the roar that could only come from a propeller driven aircraft.
"Sorry that we're late but here is something that will knock those mass produced ships right out," They heard Repulse say in an upbeat
"Aim, Pow," was what they heard before the line abruptly closed and almost a minute passed before they fully understood what was happening.
Since that is when repulse's shells slammed into a destroyer sending it straight to the bottom of the ocean. At the same instance the aircraft started to make their attack run saturating the enemy with bombs and torpedoes making instant work of the enemy surface ships. One the Surface threat was dealt with Long Island's ASW Aircraft came in and started to saturate the area with depth bombs at the direction of the Hydrofoils over the radio to do maximum damage to those pesky subs as they put it.
Finally the main fleet reached the rendezvous point and met back up with the hydrofoil twins. The group also noticed that the enemy had sent ten destroyers and five light cruisers to intercept their fleet leaving the rest to pummel the island where Foxhound and who knows who else are hiding on the island most likely behind one of the rocky outcropping they spotted earlier.
That is when they heard the strange sound of outboard motors fast approaching them. By the time Repulse and Laffey realized what was approaching it was too late to do anything but try to thin the attack that was about to hit them. It was at that moment that a wave of eighteen bomb ships appeared Repulses secondaries and Moskva AA flack gun burst to life to try to thin the group to some success sending four for repulse who has just gotten her turets point at the bomb ships and Moskva who flack cannon sank two. The rest of the fleet was pulling their weight as well with HY20 and HY21 killing six bomb ships with their chain guns while Laffey and Grant only killed three between them.
The final three where taken by the roar of repulses cannons firing and her 15 in shells slamming into the area of the bomb ships advance sending plumes of water high into the sky and leaving everyone's ears ringing in the process. While everyone's ears were recovering the enemy destroyers and light cruisers started their attacks.
Stingray was the first to recover and had her electrodes charged and ready. She unloads on a nearby destroyer causing a wave of electricity to course through it subsequently hitting the magazines as they make their way through causing the ammo to detonate sending the destroyer to a watery grave.
Repulse took a hit that inflicted some smile and chuckled to herself as her skill z counter attack skill causing her next salvo to be launched slightly faster than what everyone was expecting. This was good news for the hydrofoils as they were running into trouble as they tried to jam as many ships as they could but ended up being corralled by the enemy instead as they got too far from the fleet. The salvo slammed into two destroyers that positioned themselves behind the hydrofoils. Although the two destroyers had gotten a spread of torpedoes away while the two in front of them had done the same and were still firing their guns. Knowing that there is no way out of this the Twins braced as the torpedoes impacted them and the world turned black as they fell into the water unconscious from their injuries.
Laffey and Grant witnessed this and they were not happy one bit. Laffey could be heard saying something about self imposed limiters being removed. Grant did not know what to make of it except for the fact Laffey seemed to be fully awake and angry as she unleashed a barrage from her main gun at the remaining destroyers severely damaging four of them while three only had light damage.
Grant on the other hand became quiet as everyone could feel the anger come off of her in rolling waves. She slowly raised her gun and activated her black whole armor. Once it was activated the torpedoes the enemy destroyers laffey damaged started to turn as they were drawn to her. While that was going on Grant aimed her gun as she depressed the trigger and didn't let go letting a hot stream of lead rain from her gun as she sunk the four heavily damaged destroyers and heavily damaged the other three before she had to stop to let her gun cool down from over using it.
Thus it was up to Laffey, Stingray, Moskva, and Repulse to finish the battle so they could complete the rescue mission. Moskva had already downed one of the light cruisers and was focusing on the next one while Repulse trained her guns on the massed produced destroyers and with a smile on her face she let her main guns rip quickly destroying them. Moskva was definitely jealous of the fact Repulse could target multiple ships at once while she was stuck only being effective at targeting one at a time.
Down to three light cruisers Long Island and Olympia felt safe enough to launch their aircraft to head to the island to render a first strike at the remaining fleet members under Akatsuki command. While that was Happening Moskva decided to charge in and activate her sacrificial launchers in order to take out the last two which she successfully did while coming out with minimal damage thanks to her getting a critical hit on both causing them to explode in a magnificent fireball. The only regret that Moskva had was she could now smell the burning oil and metal which left her feeling sick though she tried to not show it to the others.
Now that this last obstacle to the island has been removed the remaining members of the fleet charged ahead until they could hear the boom of canon come from the island as they saw a barrage take out five of the remaining ten destroyers come from a kasen who was wielding a bident against the destroyer Atkatsuki while foxhound was spotted by the aircraft unleashing a torpedo salvo at two of the ten remaining ship blocking them in. That is when Long Island and Olympia aircraft came and made quick work of the remaining mass produced ships leaving only Akatsuki who promptly fled the battlefield once it became clear that she was outnumbered.
"Well that was anticlimactic here. I was thinking we would see the ninja make a last stand," Grant said wryly.
"Indeed comrade it was most disappointing at the end but also eye opening on just how much work we have to do".
"I agree with you Moskva. It also seems that it seems that the left hand of this organization doesn't know what the right hand is doing" Grant said with an exasperated sigh.
"Well enough of that at least none of us are seriously hurt so it all turned out well in the end" Repulse cheerfully announced.
"Well she is right about that, let's collect everybody and get on with it. I just want to get to the base and relax," Olympia complained quietly.
" No worries comrades, I got my submarine friend here and she will be a wonderful new lab rat for me," Stingray said in an overly happy way.
that made Moskva quickly come and take the little submarine away from the mad scientist of a corvette and give her to Olympia for safekeeping which surprised everyone.
" What I don't approve of torture even when I was a ship we treated prisoners with respect before they went to the Gulag unlike you allie scum with your enhanced interrogation that allegedly happens on your ships".
Just then a girl wearing a gothic Lolita style dress with a cape that has a hood with hole through it. That was not the most bizarre thing though her single turret was emitting spectral tendril giving it a ghost vibe from it.
Then Repulse rushed up to her and hugged her tightly saying how she was glad she was safe and asking where Foxhound was. She got the reply that Foxhound was left on the beach after falling unconscious from combat. Grant then volunteered to go pick up their downed ally so they could quickly move to the base. So the fleet with its recent additions in the form of Erebus, Foxhound, and I-13 who was still knocked out moved to collect their unconscious friend and plotted a course for the base at a renewed pace suspecting that this battle will be the first of many since poking the proverbial hornets nest that is the sakura empire.
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