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Chapter 3: IS x Kantai Collection story challenge
AN: This an IS x KanColle crossover story idea I had outlined. The IS part however will be AU since in this AU IS-verse, Ichika is the co-inventor of the IS Cores with Shinonono Tabane, which means he knows how to make IS Cores and units. Since Ichika is a big fan of a certain Gundam series, some of the new IS units he creates are based on those certain Gundams. Plot points are divided by chronological order of Kantai Collection anime. Like always, feel free to adapt this story idea and expand upon it.
Aftermath of the IS Battle with the Silver Gospel
Ichika gets caught up in the explosion as the Silver Gospel tried its least ditch attempt to kill Ichika. Ichika then wakes up in modern Japan early 2015 a few weeks when the Abysmals rose up from the oceans and started their initial attacks on humanity. During that time Ichika acquired himself a fake ID and started his work on repairing and recharging Byakushiki to optimal state. Ichika was pondering how he would get back to his world and was monitoring the charging of Byakushiki's energy through impromptu made large energy charging generators made from 2015-era tech in an old abandoned dockyard warehouse where he was currently living in when the Abysmals began their attack on Japan. The charging was only filled the Byakushiki up to 55% but Ichika prepares himself to sortie should the situation gets worse. The Abysmal assault got worse as an Abysmal fleet entered Tokyo Harbor unopposed as the main Japanese naval fleet defending Tokyo was quickly wiped out. Ichika then materializes Byakushiki charges the incoming Abysmals about to set foot on Japanese ground and prevented them from establishing a beachhead. But for every Abysmal he had killed, several more took place and Ichika found himself quickly overwhelmed by them. There was only so much a close-range offensive IS mainly armed with a sword could do against mid-to-long-range distance enemies and their weapons quickly reduced the Byakushiki's energy shielding to 0%. The Abysmals captured him and were about to execute him when the Kanmusu (ship girls) arrived in the nick of time to save Ichika. Although the Kanmusu got the most attention and recognition for helping to repel back the Abysmal assault on Japan and across the world, Ichika's actions were not forgotten and Japan remembered him as the "White Knight".
After the "White Knight" Incident, Ichika dematerialized his IS while the Kanmusu were busy fighting the Abysmals and disappeared. He was shocked that these unknown creatures later identified as Abysmals had attack Japan and other costal nations around the world. He never heard of such a thing that happened from what he knew of Japanese modern history. The history textbooks (of his world) have never mention anything about pseudo-machine ship creatures rising up from the seas to attack humanity, let alone ships born from a long ago era rising up to defend the human race in the form of Kanmusu. He was concerned of how was humanity gonna fight back and reclaim the seas when Kanmusu who for some reasons were the only ones who could repeal back and defeat the Abysmals. Ichika forgoes trying to get back home and somehow help this world defeat the Abysmals. His own "White Knight" Incident made his mood gloomy in that despite being technically more powerful and advanced than any other weapon or armed ship, the Byakushiki in the end still lost to the Abysmals and it was only due to the timely intervention of the Kanmusu was he still alive when he should have died; whereas in his world the real White Knight didn't need help. His more pessimistic feelings about Byakushiki will cause his IS compatibility with Byakushiki to decrease over time as his confidence in the Byakushiki waned considerably and he considers building himself a new IS to replace the seemingly narrowly limited Byakushiki. Ichika resurfaces days later, reveals himself to the Japanese military as the "White Knight", and is enrolled into an accelerated naval academy program that had been created to replace naval officers since many senor admirals and captains had been killed in the Abysmal's first attack on Japan.
Start of KanColle anime
Ichika transfers to the naval base around the same time as Fubuki after graduating from naval academy and given his rank as Commander. The Admiralty had hopes that Ichika would be able to help the Kanmusu fleet counter the increasing number and expanding Abysmal presence in their area. Ichika spends most of his time with Fubuki as they introduce themselves to the other Kanmusu. Ichika briefly reminisce the past for a moment since Nagato reminds him so much of Chifuyu. For the first two episodes, he was highly encouraged Fubuki in her efforts to become as strong as Akagi. While Fubuki admired the Admiral, Ichika was shocked how seemingly incompetent the Admiral appeared to be since he seemed to leave everything to the Nagato-class battleship sisters. Ichika got the Admiral to give him an empty dock warehouse that he would use for the Kanmusu Modernization Program, mainly as his IS laboratory and workshop. Part of Ichika's assignment is to somehow "modernize" the weaponry of Kanmusu which were based on naval weapons of the 20th Century, which is in itself not easy as previous modernization attempts on the Kanmusu proved unsuccessful. Ichika believes that the Kanmusu's weaponry could be made to evolve through the use of IS derived technology and that IS Cores were the answer. Ichika had deployed whenever Fubuki was deployed on the Admiral's orders; Ichika suspects that the Admiral has fallen in love-at-first sight with Fubuki and wanted Ichika to protect her on his behalf. Ichika wishes that their relationship would work out well and would like to see Fubuki confess her feelings to the Admiral. Through the first three episodes Ichika had struggled like Fubuki as his compatibility with Byakushiki gradually worsened to the point that he felt he was becoming a liability rather than asset to the Kanmusu. The last straw came when Kisaragi was sunk by an Abysmal bomber when Ichika had detected enemy presence close to Kisaragi on his sensors and rushed to help Kisaragi only to see her sink into the seas. Ichika blames himself for being unable to save Kisaragi and angrily swears that never again would he ever pilot the Byakushiki ever again and proceed in finding a suitable user for Byakushiki while hurrying the construction of his new IS and progress of the Kanmusu Modernization Program.
KanColle episode 4 and 5
Going through the list of Kanmusu, he concluded that Nagato and Tenryuu as the most likely compatible pilot for Byakushiki. Ichika had Nagato test pilot the Byakushiki and found her compatibility rank to be at A-rank and excitedly wanted to give the Byakushiki to her. While Nagato felt honored that Ichika was offering the Byakushiki to her, ultimately she decline Ichika's offer become the Byakushiki's new pilot. Despite how advance the Byakushiki may be, she still had her pride as one of the Big Seven and she felt that Ichika was projecting too much of his older sister onto her and her suspicions were correct when Ichika admitted that Nagato shared strong resemblance to Chifuyu. Nagato recommended that Ichika offer the Byakushiki to Tenryuu since she was the only known Kanmusu to ever wield a sword in combat against the Abysmals. Ichika agrees and starts to arrange plans for Tenryuu to test-pilot the Byakushiki when he met Murakumo, Samidare, and Sazanami – three of the starter Kanmusu in the KanColle game other than Fubuki and Inazuama – who were sad.
Ichika asks them what was going on when they told him that they had heard the Japanese naval high command was pressuring the Admiral to scrap some ships but put a halt on the decision in light of the situation with Kisaragi's death. They are also further sadden that despite volunteering for the Kanmusu Modernization Program, Ichika had not made any attempts to improve or upgrade them in the slightest bet and now they were pondering their true worth to the fleet and their concerned of being scrapped. Ichika realizes that he had been neglecting his responsibility with Kanmusu Modernization Program and that he had been selfishly focused on himself that he was neglecting the Kanmusu under his charge. He decided to shelf the problem with Byakushiki and Core 001 and proceeded on having the three volunteer Kanmusu try out the new type of IS he had developed specifically to be used for Kanmusu, the Kanmusu Mobile Suits (KMS).
Unlike the IS of his old world which ran on IS Cores, the Kanmusu Mobile Suit series IS ran on a new kind of IS Core he had specifically developed called the KanColle Core (or KC Core for short) which allowed Kanmusu to pilot IS units equipped with such cores. Assigning the first three prototype KMS series, Ichika chose Murakumoto be the pilot of the 2.5th Gen Prototype General-Purpose IS Gundam Duel, while Sazanami would pilot the 2nd Gen Prototype Artillery IS Gundam Buster, and lastly Samidare received the 3rd Gen Prototype Stealth IS Gundam Blitz. The fourth 3rd GEN IS KMS prototype went unused as Ichika has yet to assign another Kanmusu to it. The last prototype however was not truly like the other four KMS series IS built. While true that it had been design with a Kanmusu pilot and a KanColle Core in mind, Ichika decided to take the unit for himself to formally replace the his deficient Byakushiki IS unit. Instead of a KanColle Core, the fifth IS prototype uses the IS Core 000 "ALICE". The name of Ichika's newest IS unit is the 3.5th Gen Prototype Multi-Mode IS Gundam Strike.
KanColle episode 6
Ichika and the newly christened 666th IS Destroyer Division "Schwarzesmarken" (Black Marks) began their formal training with their new KMS series IS units. The core principle behind the unit's formation and its purpose was brilliant yet controversial, although it was not as if Ichika came up with it himself. He actually got the idea from the mecha anime Schwarzesmarken which was a stand-alone sequel to the anime Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse. Much of the combat doctrine from the Schwarzesmarken anime known as "Laserjagd" would remain the same but only slightly modified by Ichika for the dealing with Abysmals. His version of "laserjagd" would be to send a group of Kanmusu into a large Abysmal formation to hunt and destroy carrier and battleship type Abysmals. With the destruction of carrier and battleship type Abysmals, the Kanmusu and whatever supporting human naval fleet available would be allowed to follow up their attack with large formations of aerial bombers and heavy anti-ship artillery fire, allowing them to maintain Active and Static Defense while simultaneously commencing Thinning Operations despite the huge discrepancy in strength between them and numerous Abysmals.
The 666th IS DestDiv would also mirror its Muv-Luv counterpart (the 666th TSF Squadron Schwarzesmarken) in which they are special-response unit tasked with assaulting Abysmal forces through unconventional tactics; specifically, the carrier and battleship type Abysmals to deny their enemy the immense ranged and heavy firepower and air support of those particular species. Their primary orders issued by the Admiral and Commander Ichika are given the topmost priority, such that it will expected for the 666th IS DestDiv to ignore allied distress calls that will result in deviation from their original mission, even if only for a short moment. This part of their unit's Combat Doctrine made the volunteer Kanmusu felt uneasy as it was unthinkable to even consider abandoning their fellow Kanmusu despite the high importance and purpose of their unit's mission. Ichika felt hypocritical in forming this unit based on this particular Combat Doctrine given how badly Kisaragi's death had affected him and Mutsuki, but convinced himself that this was for the best and that this strategy was one that would highly save the lives of more Kanmusu in the long run and help humanity to win the Abysmal War. Time is spent on getting the Kanmusu familiarized with their KMS series IS since it gave them limited aerial flight capability, granting them tremendous boost in maneuverability and speed, which would be highly valuable to them as their much of their unit's primary Combat Doctrine is based on being able to hit the targeted Abysmals hard and fast and destroy them quickly before they are surrounded and overwhelmed by the sheer numbers advantage of the Abysmal. Sure the KMS series IS had shielding but if their energy shields were depleted then their IS would dematerialize and then they would truly be dead meat in the water and forced to rely on their own regular weapons and equipment as Kanmusu to survive. The great benefit of the IS was that they didn't cause the Kanmusu to get hungry and requiring them to consume massive resources whenever they deployed their IS units.
KanColle episode 7
Ichika and the 666th IS DestDiv were training on combat maneuvers and tactics when Ichika is informed over radio by the Admiral that it is possible that the Abyssals might be aware of their codes. The Admiral orders the immediate deployment of the 666th IS DestDiv to rendezvous with the main MO assault taskforce and reinforce them. Ichika and the 666th IS DestDiv halted their training exercise and deployed immediately without delay to help the main MO attack force but path course unexpectedly led them straight into an Abyssal carrier group. Upon closer observation via magnified optical cameras however it was no Abyssal carrier group; this group was brimming with many Elites and three Flagship Abyssals and combined with several Standard types had be worth the size of two fleets. Despite the temptation to destroy such high-value targets, Ichika orders the 666th IS DestDiv to charge their way through and link up with the main MO attack force. The IS DestDiv caught the huge Abyssal fleet by surprise and sunk many Standards and Elites as they penetrated the Abyssal fleet formation, but once inside it was a perilous challenge trying to break out of the enemy formation. Over the radios they could hear the main MO assault taskforce being attacked by dive bombers and the last survivor Shouhou begging for help. As much as Murakumo, Samidare, and Sazanami all wanted to go save her, Ichika sternly reminded them to focus on their own situation first as they were still inside the enemy's fleet formation still trying to break out. Ichika knew that main MO attack force was as good as dead and that trying to go save the last survivor while they themselves were struggling in their own battle to survive would only lead the whole unit to be wiped out.
After miraculously destroying the three Abyssal Flagships – one killed each by Murakumo, Samidare, and Sazanami – and Ichika taking out several Elites with the XM404 "Grand Slam" Anti-Ship Sword, the IS DestDiv was finally able to break through and rush to the main MO assault taskforce's last known coordinates. When they arrived on scene, they found no survivors and only floating wreckage as Abyssal aircraft buzzed away withdrawing from battle. In the aftermath of the day's event, the IS DestDiv's mood was mixed although mostly grim. Although they were glad to have survived their first battle using the IS and the IS units proved themselves effective against the powerful group of Abyssals, the unit had failed their first deployment mission and failed to save Shouhou. Ichika made his report to the Admiral in a downtrodden mood, but the Admiral said that he didn't faulted Ichika for being unable to achieve the IS DestDiv's first mission. Apparently that huge Abyssal fleet that IS DestDiv ran into was inbound for Truk Island where the base where Operation FS is would initiate from was located. Had IS DestDiv not engaged the massive Abyssal fleet and reduced its fighting strength, the enemy fleet would have been able to attack and possibly seize Truk Island, thus push back the timetable for Operation FS considerably.
KanColle episode 8
Ichika and IS DestDiv were sent to Truk Island for some much needed R&R though for Ichika it was a chance for him to get some IS work done that he hadn't been time to do. Ichika had Tenryuu test-pilot the Byakushiki equipped with a Twin Core System (Core 001 + KanColle Core) which proved successful as Tenryuu had a compatibility rating of S-rank with Byakushiki and quickly bonded with the IS. Even on Ichika's best days, his compatibility rank with Byakushiki never went as high as B-rank. While he was a little bit melancholic that he departed from Byakushiki on bad terms, he does not regret giving her away to someone else like Tenryuu whom he had faith in would be able to bring out Byakushiki's full potential. Shimakaze then approaches Ichika with a letter in hand - it is her volunteer form for the Kanmusu Modernization Program and transfer order to the 666th IS Destroyer Division "Schwarzesmarken" (Black Marks) signed by the Admiral. Ichika gladly welcomed Shimakaze into the IS DestDiv as that meant the fourth KMS series IS would be put to use, the 3rd Gen Prototype Commander-use Assault IS Gundam Aegis. The only problem Ichika had was that Gundam Aegis was designed as a commander unit due to its enhanced communication and analysis capabilities – meaning whichever Kanmusu was piloting it was expected to be the flagship of the KMS series IS and thus be second-in-command (2IC) of IS DestDiv. Ichika had his concerns about Shimakaze since she seems to be a hyperactive and excitable absent-minded girl, traits that does not demonstrate to Ichika any potential leadership capability to lead the unit if Ichika needed her to do so in his absence. Ichika decided that although Shimakaze would still pilot Gundam Aegis, the flagship role and task of 2IC would go to Samidare since she looked like the responsible one in the group. Ichika had Shimakaze do some practice test flights and maneuvers with the Aegis while he composes a guidebook for Samidare to help prepare to perform her flagship duties.
KanColle episode 9
Ichika met a distraught Fubuki and stops her to ask her what was making her upset. Fubuki told him that she had just been informed that her group Mobile Unit Five is being disbanded and she is being sent back to the Naval District on the Admiral's orders. Ichika was shocked by the news. Even though he did not spend as much time with Fubuki anymore now that he is fully resuming his duties as the director of the Kanmusu Modernization Program and command officer of IS DestDiv, he knew that Fubuki was one of the most hard working, self-sacrificing, noble Kanmusu he knew who always performed admirably in all her endeavors. Ichika was upset and disappointed in the Admiral's decision because the Admiral had always praise Fubuki and for him to do this was mindboggling. Ichika promised Fubuki that everything was going to be find and that he was going to have a serious talk with the Admiral and make him explain why he was scraping her unit and ordering her immediate return to the Naval District. Ichika got on the phone with the Admiral to give him some harsh and stern words about his recent orders and how they affected Fubuki and to plead for the preservation of her unit on her behalf. Ichika's choice of insults and interesting curse words for the Admiral earned him a formal rebuke from the Admiral and he was placed on one day suspension to reflect on his conduct. Furthermore, the Admiral told Ichika sternly that Fubuki was in no way being punished or demoted in anyway and that he has plans for her. Ichika wanted to rage more at the Admiral after the Admiral had hung up without elaborating any more concerning Fubuki's fate, but Nagato calmed him down and told him that the Admiral surely had good intentions and reasons for his current orders for Fubuki and that he should never doubt the Admiral regarding the welfare of all the Kanmusu under his command. Nagato reminded him that the Admiral always cared about the Kanmusu and was always working hard on to get the supplies and equipment they needed in order to fight and that unlike other people in the top brass he did not see the Kanmusu as weapons, but as people and beautiful girls and women to be exact.
Ichika leaves Samidare in command of IS DestDiv and accompanied Fubuki and her escorts on her way back to the Naval District in the [Strike]. He didn't want to leave her alone and so stayed by her side to provide comfort and moral support to her. On the way back to the Naval District, Ichika picks up the presence of an enemy carrier group on his sensors and the group witness Abyssal bombers flying towards for the Naval District. They arrive to find the Naval District in ruins. Ichika wanted to go after the Abyssal carrier group responsible for the attack as their radar signatures were still detected on the edges of his advanced IS sensors – and having spotted the one-eyed Wo-class highly likely to be responsible for the attack - but Fubuki held him back, saying the Abyssals were too far away to pursue in in blind vengeance and that they should provide survey the damage and provide aid to anyone injured. The Admiral was found dead in the ruins of what had been the main administration building where his office was. All the Kanmusu were formally recalled back to the Naval District to help rebuild the Naval District and prepare a funeral for the deceased Admiral. Ichika contacted the Admirality and informed them of the Naval District's situation and the Admiral's death. In response to the Admiral being KIA, the Fleet Admiral revoked the deceased Admiral's suspension order on Ichika and promoted him to Commodore (1-star rank Admiral) to assume overall command of the Naval District. That night a funeral was held for the Admiral, the Kanmusu cried tears of sorrow and anguish as Ichika stared at the coffin regretting his outburst towards the Admiral the night before. After the funeral, Ichika comforted Fubuki as she cried in his arms over the death of her first crush and love.
KanColle episode 10-12
Ichika receives news over radio communications that Fubuki and the reformed Third Torpedo Squadron encountered the Abyssal during a scouting mission, which Fubuki enthusiastically engaged them head on in hopes of increasing her experience while taking heavy damage in the process and barely making it out alive. Ichika would have ran out of Admiral's Office to the docks to deploy in the Strike had he not been quickly held back by Natago and Mutsu. Although Nagato praised Ichika for his concern and care for the wellbeing of the Kanmusu, she quickly reminded him that he was now the overall commanding officer of all Kanmusu in the Naval District and thus he can't just run off on his own nor charge head on in combat anymore. Ichika initially refuse to head to reason but when Nagato told him that the Kanmusu were still reeling from the Admiral's death and that they would be further sad if anything were to happen to him, Ichika stopped struggling and reluctantly accepted with Nagato's words and reasoning. Ichika then summons IS DestDiv into the Admiral's Office to inform them that in light of his promotion that he would no longer be able to lead them into battle like before and that Samidare was to fully take command of IS DestDiv. Ichika was surprised and left stunned however when Samidare not only refused but fully stepped down as flagship of the unit, with Shimakazenow announcing herself as the flagship and formal leader of IS then explained to Ichika that although Shimakazedoesn't look like it, she was actually a highly capable leader and she had been bummed out when Ichika gave her the commander IS unit Gundam Aegis only to assign Samidareas flagship of the unit. Now with Ichika behind the Admiral's desk and no longer allowed to freely take to the battlefield, Shimakaze was now taking over as the leader of IS DestDiv. Ichika questions Samidare's wisdom of stepping down and letting Shimakazetake her post, but Samidare had no problems with it and both Murakumoand Sazanami supported their decisions. Ichika accepted their arrangement of the reorganized IS DestDiv.
Ichika worked hard in the coming days of Operation MI by making requisition requests for badly needed supplies like Instant Repair buckets, bauxite, and some of UAVs and UCAVs to help provide extensive reconnaissance for the upcoming operation, but he is informed by the Admiralty that that the supplies and equipment he requested would arrive several hours later after the operations would have begun. Ichika mobilizes all the Kanmusu not participating on Operation MI and not too injured or in need of repair to sortie and meet up with resupply fleet headed for the Naval District partway and bring back the Instant Repair buckets for the all the Kanmusu that had been stuck in the repair docks so as to bring up the number of potential Kanmusu to deploy and assist the two main fleets for Operation MI. The pattern would continue as the supply-run taskforce would make frequent trips between the Naval District and the resupply fleet that is headed for the Naval District and continue delivery of critical supplies until the resupply fleet itself reached the harbor of the Naval District where they could deliver the supplies directly to the Naval District without the resupply-run taskforce acting as couriers. IS DestDiv was to provide escort protection for the supply-run taskforce so that they could concentrate on getting much needed supplies back to the Naval District as quickly as possible.
After the two main fleet left the Naval District to commence Operation MI, Mutsuki found herself in front of Kanmusu Modernization Program warehouse lab feeling uneasy as Fubuki and Yuudachi left for Operation MI as she alone stayed behind. She enters the IS lab as she looked for an IS unit herself, conspiring to take one for herself so that she could join Fubuki and Yuudachi and help them out. The lab was dark inside so Mutsuki stumbled around looking for the light switch. Upon turning the lights on she saw a pink IS frame that looked the same as the one piloted by Ichika himself; its plaque reads "3.5th Gen Multi-Mode IS Gundam Strike Rouge". Mutsuki reached her hand towards the Strike Rouge, but her arm was caught in the grip of Tenryu who asked her why she was in the in Kanmusu Modernization Program lab which was restricted to everyone except Ichika and the Kanmusu IS pilots themselves. Mutsuki explained that she didn't want to just wait for Fubuki and Yuudachi to come back, she wanted to fight alongside them together to make sure that everyone would all come back together alive. Mutsuki felt that she was getting left behind as Fubuki and Yuudachi continued to improve and seemed to have gotten further away from her. Tenryu was sympathetic to her reasons, but she could not just let Mutsuki take the Strike Rouge without Ichika giving Mutsuki permission and approval. She proceeded to escort Mutsuki out of the lab when there were suddenly loud explosions and the ground shook.
Tenryu and Mutsuki rushed out and saw flames in the harbor of the Naval District as some of the ships from the resupply fleet were sinking as they were burning up smoke. Ichika rushed out to see what was going on and was horrified by what he saw – an Abyssal-fied Silver Gospel in its demonic glory hoovering over some of the burning ships of the resupply fleet. The IS DestDiv engaged the Silver Gospel Demon to draw its attention and lure it away from the Naval District into far distant waters, which worked as the Silver Gospel Demon chased after them. Ichika and Tenryu then went after the Fallen Silver Gospel in their own IS units as Mutsuki stared at the carnage wrought by the Fallen Silver Gospel's actions, first terrified and scared before she steeled her resolve and headed back into the lab again. Ichika and Tenryu quickly engaged the Fallen Silver Gospel, taking the pressure off IS DestDiv as their IS units were running dangerously low on energy. Ichika orders them to retreat and refill their energy which they reluctantly did as Ichika and Tenryu prepare themselves for a tough fight. Their teamwork was good with Tenryu's will determination, and quick mastery of piloting the Byakushiki to its fullest potential and Ichika switching out between the various Striker Packs to add variety to his attacks, but it was not good enough to overcome the sheer power and strength of the Silver Gospel Demon which Ichika remarked was twice as powerful as the old Silver Gospel. Strong enough to tank the powerful swings from the Yukihira Type 2 blade and a full blast from the "Agni" Hyper Impulse Beam Cannon. Ichika initiates the Strike to its 2nd Shift form Perfect Strike Gundam and Tenryu initiates Byakushiki into its 2nd Shift form Byakushiki Setsura but the Silver Gospel Demon refused to die. Both Ichika and Tenryu take damage from the Silver Gospel Demon's counterattacks, but IS DestDiv returns to the battlefield this time with Mutsuki deployed in [Gundam Strike Rouge]. Outnumbering the Silver Gospel Demon at 7:1 odds, it became an even fight as IS DestDiv was able to provide maximum coverage of suppressing and heavy fire on the seemingly invincible IS-Abysmal and prevent it from fighting effectively. During the fight the [Strike Rouge] finished initiating 1st Shift and equipped the IWSP. Tenryu executes [Reiraku Byakuya] - though her version was three times more powerful than the one used by Ichika – and was able to reduce the Silver Gospel Demon's energy shielding to zero and destroying one of its wings. The rest of the IS DestDiv, Ichika, and Mutsuki then finished off Abysmal-fied IS by firing everything they got. The Silver Gospel Demon erupted in explosions and its pieces sank into the depths of the ocean.
The group briefly erupted in cheers of joy and celebration at defeating a powerful Abysmal boss when Mutsuki remembered that Operation MI should be taking place now. Ichika contacts the Naval District to inquire what has happened since after they lured the Silver Gospel Demon away to prevent any more damage and destruction to the Naval District by the Abysmal Boss's surprise attack. Ooyodo answered Ichika's call and told him that Operation MI was a success with all the Kanmusu involved in it all survived. Everyone then rushes back home to the Naval District to celebrate the success of Operation MI and the elimination of two Abysmal Bosses instead of one. Mutsuki still in her IS grabbing Fubuki and Yuudachi for a big group hug. Ichika tells Mutsuki as he came onto land that he had been impressed with her performance in battle against the Silver Gospel Demon that she could keep the Strike Rouge as she was now the newest member of IS DestDiv. The rest of IS DestDiv then gather around Mutsuki to welcome her into their group and they had their own extended group hug around Mutsuki which also included Fubuki and Yuudachi.
Ooyodo in the command room receives a new message from the Admirality which detailed that in light of the success of Operation MI and the elimination of another unknown powerful Abysmal Boss (the Silver Gospel Demon), Ichika was to be promoted to the permanent rank of Vice Admiral. Later that afternoon, Ichika met Fubuki at the end of the epilogue scene where the Admiral's grave rested. Ichika asks Fubuki if she was alright, which she responded that she was okay that little by little she was getting over the Admiral's death. She knew the Admiral wouldn't have wanted to stay fixated on him and remain said. He would have wanted her to move on and find new love and happiness. As Fubuki looked on at the sunset, Ichika remarked to himself that Fubuki looked beautiful in the bright sunset's light, especially with that that cheerful, courageous resolve expression on her face, not knowing that he actually said that out loud and that she heard his comment. Fubuki turned towards him as Ichika was deep in his thoughts deciding once and for all to stay in this world and not return to his original world. He made a promise to himself that in this new world, with this second chance he was given he would protect the lives and happiness of all the Kanmusu under his command, and especially those Kanmusu he came to have feelings for like Fubuki and Tenryu. Fubuki held Ichika's face with both hands, leaned in, and kissed him in his lips, shocking Ichika out of his splendor. Fubuki then went off, but not before turning back to tell him with the expression of a maiden in love, "I will be in your care from now on, Vice Admiral Ichika."
Epilogue scene cuts to underneath the ocean where most of the Abysmal Bosses have gather to discuss the status of the war in wake of the demise of the Airfield Princess and Silver Gospel Demon – all cause by their enemy's new Admiral and his unknown weapons (referring to IS). The Abysmal Admiral (unknown gender) remarked that although their losses were heavy, they were still far from being forced back on a retreat. The Abysmal Admiral then debuts to the Abysmal Bosses that five more have joined their ranks as Bosses themselves. The light and shadow were obscure, but the outline reveals the frames of these new Abysmal Bosses are revealed to be eerily familiar to that of the IS units piloted by Ichika's old friends – Akatsubaki, Blue Tears, Shen Long, Raphael-Revive Custom II, and Schwarzer Regen. The cut scene shines light on their humanoid face and feminine appearance with evil, demented, twisted expressions on their faces that reeked of hungry possessive lust as they looked at the picture of the new Admiral leading their Kanmusu enemies, Orimura Ichika. It is revealed that they strongly resemble Ichika's old female friends and comrades in the exact same appearance - Houki, Cecilia, Rin, Charlotte, and Laura.