Update as of 9/2-3/2021:Added more words to the Intro
Update as of 4/19/2021:Re-tinkered. added some BGMs
OST:HAZARDOUS ENVIRONMENTS
I wasn't a normal destroyer. At all.
I was not a normal person. either.
Even worse, I hate having to now wake up to a schedule and being not able to sleep late anymore. Especially because I had already chosen sides, The headache from also having two sets of memories fused together and a talking fairy crew also hurts my mind.
To top it all, If there was something good about this. It was that i was finally a small boat as a established character from another story, Why? Because it had been one of my main wishes.
You see. I was in Kantai collection, The majority of my knowledge came from watching the anime and reading up the wikipedia. I had seen the series before I had got into Azur lane. And I had seen scenes of the final episode before it disappeared off. And all on top of this, I wasn't even a destroyer that obeyed Kancolle as we knew it.
I was Mutsuki, But not just any Mutsuki. I was a Mutsuki that had anti-ship missiles. the ability to summon a carrier hull out of nowhere, And overhauled guns for that, All because my creations had to follow me as well as a internal reactor and 24 Su-33s. 24 F-111Fs. 8 EA-6s ADCAPs. 8 E-2Cs and a bunch of attack helicopters mixed in with a mountain of stockpiled PGMs along with the knowledge and blueprints on how to craft and make more of them. Just to make my life even more miserable.
As for how I fell in with the Abyssals.. Well, For some reason. This version of the abyssals didn't seem that dickish, And they offered another side... Another perspective into exactly what caused this... Shipgirl war.
The fact I also had a shaken and dark past also never helped, Nothing like lack of money and seeing neoliberalism rampant and choking you while you were clueless on what to do to destroy your morale.
My semi-modern weapons also gave me a way to change the outcome of everything as far as i knew, Something like attacking their leaders, Their important capital shipgirls like Enterprise or the Carrier divisions. Of changing the results of important battles by intervening. for example.
While they were curious about how I ended up as the first and only Cold war era destroyer. They were more surprised at how I had done these 'things' so easily. Of just how quickly I had got used to my new lifestyle. Of exactly how they managed to grab the first and only destroyer with such known capabilities to their side and why I would switch sides as the first shipgirl to do so.
Bombing Refugee ships and strafing the survivors in water, Of launching covert attacks and bombing Tokyo with Aardvarks as a way to lash out at the world for what it had done to me was... In a way. A relief to my bottled up emotions. My hatred at what had been done to me. Of the constant feeling of being torn apart as you Ironically take the place of your sister, Kisaragi. who was supposed to be a Abyssal destroyer.
I remembered that day, That day.. It was still clear...
OST:Dark Stalker
On the horizons, A fairly experienced and competent Ta-class of possibly the North carolina type cruised across the empty seas, In a specific direction. where she was supposed to find her 'friend'. The Japanese counterattack was bad enough, But the extra American and German and Russian shipgirls made things worse.
After receiving information about the Shipgirl forces from a unknown contact, The abyssal forces were hopeful they could turn this around and make some gains in the process. However, they didn't take shipgirl reinforcements or different nationalities into factor as well as persistent problems with training and coordination issues, Causing their carrier ships to be blindsided.
"This fleeting moment of advantage can only work as long as we have the organization and numbers to back it up..." The Ta-class muttered. "But that technological gap is making things in vain."
Abyssal units had managed to duke it out with enemy shipgirls in the battles alone and had even gained momentum, A uncommon thing to be heard of. However, between their training problems and the technological gap along with how surprisingly resilient shipgirls could be. It couldn't be considered a strategic advancement at alone. even at the operational level, And what they got had turned out to be the old Interwar ships and not the relatively modern ones like the Fubukis.
Meanwhile, Abyssal units had suffered serious losses. and some of them were caused by secondary factors like fires. And with enough problems elsewhere on other theaters, That meant the loss of any strategic capability for now. which would force them to go on the defensive.
This Ta-class had been tasked to find her contact while attacking targets of opportunity, But even with reserve light carriers doing their best. It wasn't long before the fighting would come to her, And so she was here trying to find her 'friend' as fast as possible.
"The best I can do is to find her and then escape, The destroyer herself." She narrowed her eyes in resolve. "Another shipgirl in their whole fleet may not be much of a difference, But a Cold-war destroyer with the impossible ability to use aircraft which are just as advanced as her is another thing. Hopefully she should be here by now."
Salvo of Destroyer-caliber shells landed down in front of her and forced her to slow down. She looked around to see a bunch of enemy destroyers show up from nowhere, How did-
"YOU!" A angry voice called out to her, She knew that voice well. She also spotted the distinct, shades of brown sparkled in the seas. How did they show up here? Last she remembered, The fighting didn't change locations that quick.
"Oh, Its you... The Special-type." She gave a small smile. "And all five of you, Looks like you guys are getting better as i see."
"Enough of this." Tashkent yelled. "You won't cause any further trouble now!"
"Oh, eh." She raised a eyebrow. "You sure about that?"
"That's right Poi." Yuudachi coldly aimed her torpedo launchers. "You've just a lone battleship against the rest of us poi!"
"Alone? I've practiced this countless times and I even survived things that would have destroyed a lesser ship." She crossed her arms prepared to fire if necessary "I am not a idiot, either."
"Things changed..." Sagiri spoke up, "The gap only widens further everyday, Just give it up. you!"
"Changed? I was never one to support my dumb colleagues when it came to their more outlandish proposals of displacing everyone, Also. beyond your admiral. Humans treat each other like trash." The Battleship grinned and made movements with her hands. "And when all of this is over, What do you suppose happens? Get used as stupid soldiers for so-called 'liberation' campaigns in the name of regime change?"
"But-" Tashkent tried to move only for Fubuki to stop her. "Fubuki...?"
"There's no use talking with them." Fubuki replied as she clenched her guns, "Something like this can only be decided though battle!"
The Ta-class accelerated ahead as she decided that she would soon reach her object of interest. "Unfortunately, Its not in me to fight a losing battle unlike these idiots." The battleship called out as she changed direction. The destroyers quickly pursued her however, It wasn't enough between the return fire and general chaos.
"What to do! Sagiri!?" Fubuki asked as more shells splashed down.
"I am thinking! Perhaps we-"
Multiple shells suddenly rain down around them. Clearly intended to be more than just a warning salvo...
"These shells..." Kisaragi eyes widened as that only meant one thing... "Mutsuki...!?"
I accelerated at full speed toward the direction of Takyuu, "There you are!"
"Mutsuki-chan! You were supposed to meet me at this specific spot earlier!"
I end up nearly colliding with the Ta-class battleship as my hair looks like a mess and my emotional state was near total collapse, That i could tell from my internal computerized systems and my crew warning me that my mind was edging the possibility of insanity.
"Hello, The fabled Destroyer with the abilities of the legendary Cold war ships." Ta-class muttered as she caught me. "We need to get you out of here as fast as we can!"
"It Couldn't be... No..." Fubuki gritted her teeth as she finally realized the source of the massive code leaks, The bombings at multiple bases. Strange reports of mysterious aircraft that failed to respond but had overflew multiple shipgirl forces, And my strange behavior and constant mental issues and rambling about being used as nothing more than tools that had been leading up to this... "Mutsuki... You... You sold us all out?"
"So you figured it out," The Ta-class narrowed her eyes at that. "She was never exactly in the best state of mind."
"How could you... Mutsuki... Poi..." Yuudachi covered her mouth as tears begin to flow, while Kisaragi stifled back a cry and Sagiri and Tashkent closed their eyes regretfully.
"Is there a place for us in the future once all of this is over!?" I asked out aloud as more alarms began to indicate my rapidly collapsing mental state but that didn't matter to me. "Answer me! You know these better than me! The fact we are all going to go back to being the pawns and... and... the... the... The...! vehicles of geopolitics and realpolitik! Even so! Even so... Why do you still fight!?"
"Because I am not running away, Mutsuki..." Fubuki's face softened as she kept her aim. prepared to fire if necessary. "I won't run away... Mankind be damned.. But what use is this if all you can feel is anger of sadness! You betrayed my feelings! Even though I wanted to protect you and my friends!"
I looked back up, crying as my mental state finally collapsed and my magical powers began to fail on me as I no longer had the strength necessary to draw on them.
"I, I am sorry... I.. I fucking can't..." I wiped my tears and smiled. "I.. I happen to be in something called destiny... I was nowhere as strong as the Americans and their mass production of... Of the Royal navy and their history so... Goodbye... Fubuki-chan..."
Things were tense as my onboard combat systems analyzed the current battlespace. The air became still as If one of us would shoot right now...
The Ta-class was standing still, Prepared to fire if needed. Even though she didn't look any different than the other enemy ships. There's something about her that made her different.
She knew how to pick her own battles and to flee if necessary... She had the qualities of a NCO. And unlike the rest of her rage-driven colleagues she was good at tactical planning and rallying scattered forces together.
That was the missing link between me and my strange behavior, It was that Ta-class battleship I had been communicating with and who had listened to me ranting and rambling about my thoughts and cola-driven monologues that at times had me crying slightly. In secret.
Fubuki thought what i had said very carefully, Given my abilities right now and that if i could devour a flotilla and noone could even know what had happened... "The five of us are no match for her, Not with Mutsuki on her side..."
"Fubuki-chan..." Kisaragi began to freak out about what was happening, "Are you... Fine with this? Mutsuki is..."
"If I wanted to turn I would've done it a long time ago..." Fubuki forced out the words as she knew about the consequences of losing their first and only Cold-war destroyer and carrier, Guns still aimed as Tashkent had her torpedo launchers ready. "Let's go back and inform everyone, I am very sure the admirals will not panic about this..."
"Then I will be waiting, For all of you." The Ta-class quietly said. "You better get stronger by then.. For your friend's sake."
"Yes! Yes we will! We will sink the both of you so hard whoever raised you from the bottom of the seas will be awarded multiple battle stars! You heard me!?" Tashkent pointed. "We bring you back no matter what it takes!"
"They always said I was never normal. To be like me."
"They analyzed me. My Aircraft."
"Medicated me."
"Outcasted me for being a complete and utter freak."
"People... Took everything from me, All because of my dark past and what i do."
"My way of life... My friends... My relative... My Humanity... "
"People Took everything."
"Then came the Abyssals."
"They listened. They told me the problems of the mind need not be the problems of my soul."
"I only had to give up just one thing for this job..."
"The last of my sanity."
"Some would say... I never had it anyway." My expression turns into a demented grin as I stared at the camera with empty eyes.
CRIMSON JANUARY SEAS:ZERO
Author's note here, This started out as a idea but eventually turned into a proof-of-concept story. Exploring what would happen from my Opposing forces perspective on the sides of the Abyssals. You might get to see my abilities in a battle scene later!
