Authors note: this story was inspired off the stories of Touhoufanatic and SirStonewall, with their idea of hybrids. It isn't my idea and I don't claim so.

If you like this story I suggest you check out their stories as well, or if you're just looking for good Arpeggio of blue steel fanfics, you should look at their stories Daemons of the fog, and Ghosts of fog redux.

This is incredibly heavy AU of Arpeggio of blue steel and I am using the anime version, and "special" ships will be in it. So! Let's get to it now.

"So, how has the mainland been Vinson?" Said a man who looked to be in his late twenties. He appeared to be of american heritage, and was dressed in a black admiral's uniform, though he didn't have his hat on. He had jet black hair and purple irises.

Vinson also looked to be of American heritage and looked slightly younger than the man who just spoke. He had white dress pants along with a white tank top, and a white admiral's shirt tied around his waist. He had brown hair, and green eyes. He looked down at his glass of beer before speaking.

"It was… interesting to say the least. The base was attacked by the Fog again, probably Hybrids since we didn't start anything" now he took a sip of his beer and sighed, "you know everyone is wondering when we'll get started"

"Ah, so everything is normal then? Hybrids are the Fog's demolitions, since the code blocks them from attacking directly" now he paused as he sighed heavily "yeah I know… but you know we need more information, and if we don't have information then it'll be hard"

"Yeah I know" Vinson said "you know of Elizabeth's idea. How about we do that? It'll give us plenty of ships, and I'm sure the Fog wouldn't mind us too much"

"Perhaps, but how'd we show ourselves, when no one else knows of us? And I don't think those in the oriental fleet would be to happy with how we normally act"

"Well simply, we just show ourselves. Though I think it'd be best for our small guys to show up first rather than us showing up immediately. As for the oriental fleets, they'll just have to accept our help, unless they want us against them" now he laughed a bit.

There was now a moment of silence as the two thought. The silence was only broken when a beeping sounded through the room.

The man from before stood up, and looked around. "Seems like Gerald and everyone else is being a bit impatient. We were going to play poker. We can continue our brainstorming later"

Vinson stood up as well and nodded "ok, say hi to them for me" now he paused for a moment then realized something "Oh! Yeah,Chester, have you heard of that Fog off in Japan? Apparently it has a human crew"

The man who was apparently named Chester nodded a bit "I have, perhaps we'll meet them some day. We'll see how well a human can do with a Fog ship. Even if it is a destroyer"

Now the room seemed like it was glitching and soon the two men disappeared from it completely, leaving nothing behind them. The concept comms room had been shut off for the time being.

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The night was calm as a Kirov class Battlecruiser accompanied by two Arleigh Burke class were sailing along the west coast, just north of the remains of San Francisco.

A man who seemed to be in his early twenties stood in the Bridge of the Kirov class. He looked to be of Russian heritage, and had short brown hair that was currently covered by black ushanka. The ushanka had a strange symbol on it, similar to that of the Fog Sigil. He wore a dark green colored Soviet army uniform, that looked like it was from World War Two, along with a dark green coat. He stood at a window peering out at the sea in front of them, and occasionally looked at the coastline off in the distance.

Then a voice spoke to him out of nowhere {Hey, Hey! Frunze, how long till we reach the destination?} The voice sounded like that of a girl, probably in her mid Teens. Her voice seemed to be cheerful.

Now Frunze spoke {not much longer, perhaps a few more hours, Nitze. Once we get there we'll have Sampson seem like he is damaged to draw out the humans} He spoke in a Russian accent not too heavy, but still noticeable.

Now Nitze spoke {then we attack! Right?}

{Yes we will} now he spoke out over comms {how about we enter Concept comms to pass the time faster?}

{Yes let's do that!} Came Nitze

[Sure, it'll be less boring there] came another voice, this time seeming to be that of a male who is in his mid teens. The voice problem being Sampson

{I'll set one up then, I'll send invites when it is finished}

Now there was a moment of silence before Frunze suddenly appeared to be in a log cabin. The cabin had a fireplace at one side of it. In the center there was a round wooden table with a bottle of vodka on it.

After a moment two people appeared in the room. One was that of a male teenager in his mid teens. He had black hair that was kind of messy. He had on black shorts, and a short sleeve shirt with pictures of the moon on it. He had a calm quiet look on his face, almost apathetic, as he sat down at the table. The other was a girl who also appeared to be in her mid teens. She wore a dark gray sundress with purple markings on it. She had blond hair and purple eyes. She clearly looked much more cheerful than the boy. She had a cheerful smile on her face, as she sat down, but seemed to still be energetic, and almost jumped back out of it.

Now there was a moment of silence before Nitze spoke "so, Frunze, how have you been while you were on the mainland?"

Frunze sighed after he took a shot of vodka "it was mostly fine, besides a gang of humans trying to make me Swiss cheese, after I got caught in the crossfire between them and the police. The mainland is chaos right now, as gangs pop up trying to get hold of resources"

"Oh… I hope you taught them a lesson on why you don't try to hurt us" she said in an cheerful voice "that's stupid you know? Why would they be idiots and fight each other even though they have a common enemy?"

Now Sampson spoke up before Frunze could "because the humans are idiots, that fight each other when they need to be allies. It is one of the many stupid things they do. You know this well, Frunze, since you were among the for a year or two"

"That I do,Sampson. But i would say normally it is only because the actions of a few stupid people. I have seen many groups that preach to unite together for the greater good, as the humans say. Some do better than others, but even if they did unite they don't have the technology to fight back"

Now Nitze spoke, but changed the subject out of nowhere "hey! do you think we'll make contact with the Fog!?" She said energetically, as she had always wanted to meet the Fog first hand, rather than staying asleep and hidden for so long.

"Probably" Sampson said and then chuckled "I wonder how they'll react when they see us, especially the Hybrids. Just imagine when they see what appear like three human ships to actually be three Phantom fleet ships. Probably be stunned"

Now Frunze sighed a bit as they spoke "well with us being in here, and time getting accelerated we should see them in a few minutes… that is if they come at all"

"Oh, they'll come alright" Sampson said in what seemed like a more excited voice than before.

Now the three began talking about unimportant things that I won't bore you with, mostly things that wouldn't make any sense unless you had their own knowledge of things and happenings.

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Now a small fleet of Hybrid Fog warships could be seen going on a kill mission. Apparently a human destroyer somehow made it to the open ocean, though was heavily damaged, though it wasn't sinking. And apparently reinforcements were coming to at least rescue the crew of the ship.

The fleet was made up of a Des Moines class heavy cruiser, two Cleveland class light cruisers, a Fletcher class destroyer, and a Benson class destroyer. All of them Hybrids and all of them hated being like this, being forced to fight humans while on the side of the Fog.

Diamond, who was the Hybrid Des Moines, was at the bow of her ship, which was colored a dark blue with yellow markings and a sigil that was a cross with two half circles on either side of it.

She herself looked to be of Polish heritage, with dark blonde hair that went down below her shoulders, and blue eyes. She was holding onto a pole at the bow of her ship and she was looking off into the distance, as a tower of black looking smoke floated higher and higher up into the sky. She sighed as she knew today was going to be another day of killing humans. Though now she heard the voice of another girl speaking over comms {ship in the distance! It's human! And there's blips on the radar!}

Diamond responded {Roger that, Boyle} now she spoke to the rest of the fleet {attention everyone, the human ships have been sighted, get ready for engagement}

Now as the fleet approached they got into formation, with the destroyers going forward, followed by the cruisers. All of them prepared their weapons for a mission that they hated doing, but it was either follow the orders given, or die a painful drawn out death.

Now as they approached the human ships that were just arriving as well were mostly in sight, though some were obscured by the smoke. The destroyer that was damaged seemed to be that of an Arleigh Burke class, an incredibly old destroyer class by the standards of the day. Though the human ships that could be seen, seemed to be two guided missile destroyers, and two guided missile cruisers.

{all ships fire at will!} Diamond ordered the fleet, and they responded immediately as brightly colored lasers shot across the sky towards the human ships.

Two blue lasers hit one of the destroyers, and an explosion followed, as its missiles were set off while still inside. Then… something happened. An unknown blip appeared near Des Moines, and she could clearly sense it along with the rest of her fleet.

{unknown underwater target detected, doesn't feel like a Fog. I'm going to engage}

Now a flurry of missiles went straight up and dove down into the water near her off to the unknown blip. She could see the water pillars that occurred from the explosions rising high into the air, but could still tell the blip was still somehow alive.

{the damaged destroyer is moving!} a voice said over comms.

Now Diamond turned her attention to it and she could see as it seemed to turn towards the other human ships, and appeared to be trying to fall back. By now another destroyer was destroyed and sinking, but something terrible could be seen as something came out of the smoke. It was a battleship that the humans made as they found certain Fog ships were weak to battleship guns, namely Hybrid warships had much weaker Klein fields than fully fledged fog.

Diamond gulped nervously as it came out of the fog. Its guns roared and soon towers of water rose up next to one of the nearby Clevelands.

Diamond winced when she saw the water towers. {all ships focus on the battleship} now the entire fleet started to fire what they could at it. Lasers piercing its hull and superstructure, normal explosions tearing small chunks, and corrosive explosions taking bigger chunks out of it. But it continued forward towards them.

Its guns roared once more at one of the destroyers, and everyone thought it was done for till a strange blip could be sensed. A different one than before. It was near the destroyer, which was Boyle a Benson class, who was closest to the battleship. The shells closed in and just before they hit Boyle's Klein field, they hit another Klein field. Purple looking hexagons flashed as a more powerful Klein field absorbed the rounds. Then explosions could be heard as the other humans' ships besides the battleship started to explode, except for the damaged Arleigh Burke.

{what was that!} yelled a voice over comms.

Everyone was silent for a moment as everyone stopped firing their guns, and missiles, even the human battleship stopped. They were just looking at Boyle's ship as the new Klein field faded away. There was a moment of silence from both sides before something suddenly breached the water near Boyle's ship. It was obscured for a few seconds, as water fell all around it, then it became clear what it was.

It was an Arleigh Burke class, dark gray in color with black spots and glowing purple markings like that of a Fog. Its glowing purple Sigil looked like a rhombus with the edges gone, and a cross in the center of it.

A voice yelled over comms {what in the name of God is that!?}

Then on an open channel everyone could hear Nitze cheerful yell {haha! Yay! Finally we get a chance to make our appearance! All weapons open fire!}

Now they could see as a tower of smoke rose up into the air from the forward missile launchers of Nitze's ship, and her single five inch gun started to rapidly fire at the battleship, making more holes appear in its hull. The missiles also flew at it and soon every Hybrid had to cover their eyes as a massive corrosive torpedo explosion occurred, frankly overkill from Nitze, as several corrosives hit at the same time. And when they could look back they could see that the battleship was just gone.

Everyone looked stunned by what happened as the sudden appearance of Nitze was shocking. Now everyone just stood on their own ships silent as they first looked at where that battleship once was, then at Nitze. Her ship is still near Boyle's ship, dwarfing it massively. When they looked at where the damaged destroyer was, they were even more stunned as the destroyer was completely fine, and now had coloring like any other Fog did. A dark green, along with glowing light blue markings. Though they couldn't yet see its sigil.

The entire Hybrid fleet was just quiet, as the two strange ships appeared out of nowhere to both protect Boyle, and for one alone to completely obliterate a battleship. Though now they could hear Nitze's voice again yeah that's what you get, when you come on the ocean now! she giggled a bit after she spoke, and her ship started to move forward towards the wreckages of the human ships, that didn't get completely obliterated, and seemed to look for survivors for turning into Hybrids.

"What?" Was all Diamond said to herself as she looked at Nitze's ship then at Sampson's.

Diamond just remained silent until an invite to a concept comms invite popped up in front of herself. She gulped a bit nervously as she didn't know what ship they were, and didn't know who they were. She accepted the invitation and suddenly appeared in the log cabin that Frunze and the others were in before.

Diamond could see Frunze sitting at the table, as she stood near one of the walls. She looked around for a moment then at Frunze, she barely had taken a step to sit at the table when she noticed that Frunze was a man. She looked stunned like before, as a male Fog was unheard of, at least to her. Though he wasn't a Fog, well… not exactly.

Frunze was calm as he looked up at Diamond, and the spoke to her, "please sit, it feels odd if you stay standing"

She obeyed and sat at the table across from Frunze and seemed to be nervous at the moment. Though now Frunze broke the silence "I take it that you are quite stunned, from the appearance of one of my destroyers, and of myself. I can understand that from what you and your own fleet know off currently. The only thing I'll say out right without you asking me, is that we are friendly to your fleet and to the Fleet of Fog"

Diamond was silent as she absorbed what Frunze said, and after a moment seemed to grow calm and serious. "I… see" she said "well… who are you?" She asked

"Phantom Fleet, Kirov class Guided Missile Battlecruiser, Frunze. Currently flagship of the first east Pacific squadron" he answered calmly

"Um…" Diamond said as she tried to think of questions "who are your ships in your fleet and why did you help us?"

"Arleigh Burke class destroyers, Nitze and Sampson. And I was ordered to lay a trap using Sampson as bait to draw out human ships. We'd have engaged if you had, or hadn't showed up. But the arrival of the battleship was all the better, sad, Nitze completely obliterated it. We could've gotten so many new Hybrids from it.

"Who is your flagship?"

"Currently Nimitz, of the Nimitz class aircraft carrier, is the supreme flagship of the Phantom Fleet"

Diamond seemed to freeze and gulped a bit at the name of Nimitz, as she knew what carriers like that could do, with just normal human technology.

"Um… what do you plan to do now?"

Now Frunze sighed a little bit "well if we hadn't come in contact with you, we were ordered to investigate a nearby base, if we did come in contact with the Fleet of Fog then we were ordered to try and join up with their fleet for a time, while the rest of the fleet is preparing"

Diamond asked slowly "preparing for what?"

"Most of the Phantom Fleet is still asleep, only recently we woke up. By recently I mean in about the last three years, and those who are awake are either here, or on the mainland"

"I… see… well…" Diamond paused for a moment "I'm just a Hybrid, so I can't really do too much about you joining us. You'll have to talk to Alabama, who is my flagship"

"Well then can you bring us to her, so I can talk with her in person?"

Diamond hesitated for a moment, as she didn't know if Frunze was planning something. Though she soon spoke "uh… sure I can" now she muttered to herself "this is gonna be a handful to deal with isn't it?" She sighed a bit, she thought how she'd explain this to Alabama.

"Well that settles it then" Frunze said "I suggest informing your fleet on what has happened before we move out"

"Yeah, this is gonna be so fun" she said in a sarcastic tone

Now the concept kicked both of them off to the real world so that they could go back to Diamond's flagship, Alabama.