It was the next day and Gabriel was on his way to the French dorms for the meeting he scheduled yesterday.

When he arrived he knocked on the door and Dunkerque answered not long after.

"Salut capitaine" she then proceeded to kiss each cheek.

"Salut"

She then let him in and Gabriel saw all the shipgirls there.

"Bonjour everyone, I have all the votes counted for the Fleet Representatives.

The fleet representatives or lieutenant commander is Cardinal Richelieu, lieutenant is Dunkerque"

"Congratulations Cardinal" Jeanne d'arc said.

"Cardinal and Dunkerque we will meet later at my house to discuss the running of the fleet, and bring that cup with the names"

"Oui capitaine" they both said.

"au revoir" Gabriel says as he leaves


Gabriel then goes to the air strip where a plane just flew in.

"Gabriel, how are you doing?"

"Salut Fredrick, whose coming today?"

"Her name is Asella Farina, She will be the captain of Italian forces"

"Ammiraglio?" said an unfamiliar voice.

Gabriel and Fredrick looked over to see a woman with light brown hair in an emerald green uniform similar to theirs.

"Asella Farina?" asked Fredrick

"Sí"

"Perfect, I'm Admiral Fredrick Farley, this is Captain Gabriel Renault" he says introducing him and Gabriel.

"Ciao, it's nice to meet you Ammiraglio Farley and Capitano Renault"

"Oh please just call me Fredrick"

"and me Gabriel" Gabriel adds.

"Then just call me Asella"

"Ok I'm going to give you a tour please come this way" Fredrick says as he leads her to a nearby jeep.

Gabriel watched then drive away before he also left.


Gabriel at home Knock Knock Knock

Gabriel then walks to the door and opens it to see Arthur.

"Hello Gabriel"

"Salut," Gabriel says as he lets Arthur in.

"have you gotten to know your girls?" Arthur askes

"a little, there all nice enough" Gabriel responses

"nice enough?" Arthur askes

"Oui"

"Well I have also been getting to know my girls" Arthur states.

"how are they?" Gabriel questioned

"good a little uptight but nice except lizzy and valiant are pricks" Arthur notes.

"By lizzy you mean Queen Elizabeth, correct?" Gabriel asked

"Yeah, her and Valiant are good leaders and have a presence about them but their pricks" Arthur explains.

"I kinda know what you mean Richelieu is nice and has a very powerful presence about her like I feel like she makes me more holy? with her presence" Gabriel adds

"Talking about presence when we met Bismarck I was a little scared," Arthur says.

"Yeah her and Jean bart have a presence like their be very willing to hurt me."

Knock Knock Knock

Gabriel opened the door and Richelieu and Dunkerque were there.

"Salut Richelieu and Dunkerque" Gabriel says then proceeded to kiss each cheek of both of them and let them in.

"Very nice place you have here capitaine" Richelieu comments.

"Merci beaucoup, Cardinal. alright Arthur I'll see you later"

"yeah see you later" Arthur says then leaves.

"Capitaine, what would you like to talk about?"

"Well I need to know how the fleet normally runs" replied Gabriel

"While in the Iris Libre and Iris Orthodoxy I had supreme command and then next was the Templars knights then anyone else" Richelieu started.

"It was the same except that we didn't have anyone with supreme command but Jean bart was the de facto leader" Dunkerque adds.

"ok, while I guess me and the cardinal will co-run the fleet." Gabriel says after a bit of thinking"

"alright capitaine anything else?"

"Oui we need a fleet name" Gabriel.

"What about the Iris Orodoxys" Richelieu suggests

"I like it" Dunkerque agrees.

"Oui, is there anything you think I should know of the fleet or about people in the fleet?" Gabriel asked.

after a little bit of thinking Dunkerque says "while Jean bart and Algérie don't like you very much and might rebel"

Gabriel nods in understanding.

"Algérie also has a deep hatred for the British" adds Richelieu

"We are also still on rocky terms with the Brits, Germans, and Italians. provides Dunkerque.

"I see that's a lot," Gabriel says as he nods in understanding.

"well capitaine is there anything you think we should know?"

Gabriel thought for a while before he said "everyone is scared of you actually not just you but all shipgirls and I'm stuck forever in this is a career ending job."

Richelieu and Dunkerque looked shocked at this and asked at the same time "Why?"

"well because humanity created shipgirls to fight the sirens but after the sirens disappeared all the shipgirls scatter and started fighting other shipgirls in the exact way on ww2, it's scary powerful rouge entities fighting in the exact way there ship counterparts did 70 years ago"

"Sirens disappeared?" they both asked at the same time. "They never disappeared".

Now Gabriel was looking quite confused "the sirens never disappeared?"

"Oui, they got the shipgirls of Germany, Japan, Italy, and split our own faction into the vichya dominion. They also interfere and observe a lot of the battles." Dunkerque responses

"Interesting, we knew that the sirens observed and instigated the war but that they directly entered is crucial information." Gabriel responses.

"Also what do you mean by this is a career ending job?" asked Richelieu.

"Well the UN said that we were chosen to protect the world but they are scared of the shipgirls and stuck you all on this island to get you out of the way and choose us to basically supervise you. They wouldn't say that of course but I can read inbetween the lines they stuck us here to get us out of the way for whatever reason. I feel worse for Heinrich because this job is destroying his reputation." Gabriel explains.

"How is this post destroying his reputation?" Richelieu asked

"Well you see the shipgirls in Germany are extremely unpopular because Germany has a great regret for its nazi history and all the German shipgirls are nazi ships so the German public association them with the nazi regime even thought the girls don't share the same beliefs. In fact it's incredible how they were even managed to be made I would say the most incredible thing on this base.

"even more incredible then saints, vampires, kitsuns, witches, and robots?" Richelieu asked.

"Ok maybe not the most incredible thing, but still something of note"

"Oui" Richelieu agrees.

"If the UN was trying to get us out of the way why did they spend so much money and what about the town wouldn't they be scared?" Dunkerque askes

"They wanted to try to make you girls happy so they dumped a huge amount of money here, in fact this is an artificial island and the town is just a military town, with military personnel and their families, but they are separate from us."

"This is an artificial island, how do you know?" Richelieu askes.

"Well we're in the north pacific, there should be no islands here. They didn't even tell me, they really tried to make this place look real, I wonder how they built an island here when the average sea depth in the north pacific is 4,280 metres." Gabriel explained.

"How do you know all that?" Dunkerque asked, impressed.

"Well I started having my suspicions right after I arrived, knowing that the nearest islands are the aleutian which are too cold, so I started researching, that's how I know that" explained Gabriel.

"I see, do you think we should share this with the rest of the fleet?" Richelieu asked.

"Only people you can trust to not spread the information around" Gabriel told her.

"Alright capitaine" Richelieu agreed.

"Oh look at the time!" Dunkerque surprisingly said.

They all looked at the clock, it was getting late and Richelieu and Dunkerque needed to go.

"Sault capitaine" Richelie and Dunkerque says as they leaves.