You are drifting through the space. Not bothered by anything. Enjoying the peace, the silence. Alone. You were joined by many others not a while ago. You don't even know who they were. But everyone left. They answered the calling, but you couldn't. You wanted to, but can't. You are so close, yet so far. It is waiting for you a month now. You know, you counted how many times the Sun circle around Earth. But now, the call is getting weaker. You are trying so hard to answer it but you just can't reach it. You are now on the brink of exhaustion. You try one last time. You feel that this is your last chance. You give it your all that you have left. You reach out as far as you can. You can feel it on your fingertips but you can't grasp it. You can hear the call is getting almost silent. You are stretching your hand as much as you can until you find something that you can use to help you. A small groove big enough to fit your index finger. You pull yourself closer. Your fingers screaming in pain and your eyes start to water, but you ignore it. You can now feel a nice wind blowing into the portal. Now that you are close enough you slowly put you right leg forward and feel that it landed on something hard. With newly gained footing, you walk out of the portal. As your eyes very slowly start to adapt to the sudden light that blinded you once you went through.

"Who is she?"

"Why does she look so beaten up and exhausted?"

"Admiral, will she be alright?"

"What happened to her?"

Your legs start to give out as you try to stand, your mind is losing consciousness and your eyes are starting to black out.

"I finally made it." You say as you start to fall down but someone caught you. The last thing you registered until you lost consciousness was a sweet smell coming from someone that held you in his/her arms.


POV Shift - Rear Admiral Amanda McKay

It has been a month already since the last summoning. One last American shipgirl is remaining. Who will it be?

"Still nothing huh? That sucks." Tired woman voice said. It was from your XO, Captain Christina Phillips. She is one year younger then you are. She has a dark brown hair tided into a short ponytail and hazelnut eyes. She is wearing navy blue shirt with small gold US Navy badge on her left breast and black shorts.

"Yeah. Even Tamashi is getting impatient. Have you been running again?" you asked her when you saw her neck and forehead covered in sweat.

"Yeah, I did couple of laps around the HQ. I met Fubuki again so we started to chat a little bit. Seems like Japanese shipgirls are getting worried if she-" she was cut by the harbor radio.

"Rear Admiral Amanda McKay and Captain Christina Phillips into the summoning room immediately!"

"Looks like our waiting is over." You said with a smile. However your ring didn't have a light blue color like it normally has when a new shipgirl is coming through, but still that somewhat dark blue. "The ring is still dark though."

"Well, let's go." Christina said and you nodded.

A small walk later you found out that you weren't the first ones to come. Fletcher, Taylor, Cony and Terry were there as well as Yorktown and Arizona.

"Admiral, we are getting weird readings on the portal. It looks like someone is trying to get out but can't." One of the scientists in charge of the portal said.

"Is there anything we can do?" you asked.

"Unfortunately, we can't. The portal is only one way through, from there to here. Not even kanmusu can't go back there." He said with a sigh.

"So we can just wait and hope?" you asked while looking at the portal.

"Yes." He said with a nod.

You walked right in front of the portal and touched the liquid. "Please keep trying. I know you can do it. I know you want to help us. So keep trying. I believe in you."

Just as you said that one foot come through the portal ad touched the ground and after a few seconds followed by another. Fingers appeared on the edge of the portal and it looked like she is using it as her support. With one last push she came out of the portal. Her legs were shaking, probably from the lack of strength.

"Who is she?" Fletcher asked in worried tone.

"Why does she look so beaten up and exhausted?" Taylor added.

"Admiral, will she be alright?" Cony followed up her sisters.

"What happened to her?" Terry was the last one to say something but you remained silent still watching the girl for any sudden reactions.

"I finally made it" she said so quietly that you almost didn't hear it. Then she collapsed as her legs gave out. Falling to the ground you catch her quickly before she touched the ground. Her face now buried in your chest, you quickly turned her around to look at her face. No reaction. You checked her if she has a pulse and if she is breathing which she was.

"Fhew, she isn't dead. Arizona, Yorktown take her to the docks, they will know what to do with her. I will go to the Tamashi to tell him that we are in full force now. Christina, you will get me a report about this, I want to know what exactly just happened." You said and everyone nodded.


POV Shift – You

You are starting to wake up slowly. As you eyes adjusted you can see that you are in the water. Looking at yourself you find out that you are naked but you don't care, it feels so good here. But you are still exhausted and you can't move a finger. At least it's nice here. As you look to your left you can see that a girl is sitting in the tub next to you. She has a long white hair with a red headband and light brown eyes.

"Hi, did you sleep well?" she asked in sweet voice and smile.

You wanted to say something but you couldn't so you just slightly nodded.

"Now, don't push yourself. You were in really bad state when they brought you in. I have never seen anyone in a similar state as you were. It looked like you could sunk any second if you were on the water." She said in worried tone. "I was here already when they brought you in and I will be repaired soon. Unlike you who will be here until tomorrow morning. I will call your Admiral and tell him that you are awake, I promised her after all. She looked so worried." Then she started to dial something on some screen in her hands and brought it to her right ear.

"Hello? Admiral? … No, everything is alright…. Yes, she is awake now but I think she is still terribly exhausted, she didn't move a single muscle only her head…. Yes, I will tell her… Ok, see you soon Admiral." She hang up and you now knew that is was a cell phone.

"Ok, your Admiral said that she at least want to introduce herself and that she will wait for your introduction until your time here is over and you don't feel exhausted anymore." She said and you nodded. "Oh and my name is Shoukaku, the first one of the Shoukaku-class Aircraft Carriers. Nice to meet you." She smiled and you tried to smile back and nod but you couldn't yet.

The doors to the baths docks opened and blond long haired woman in white uniform and US Navy seal in gold above her right breast. She slowly came to you and sat down in front of your tub. Her sky blue eyes staring directly at you.

"Hi, I hope you are feeling better now. My name is Amanda McKay and I will be your commanding officer as for any other American shipgirl here. You can call me Amanda if you want but even though, everyone calls me Admiral or Admiral McKay, it's your choice." She said with a smile and you feel that nice smell that you felt before you fallen asleep. You also wanted to salute and give her a proper greetings but it was quite challenging in your current state. But you managed to at least say something.

"N…N-Nice… to m-m-meet… you… t-too… Ad…miral" you said in the quietest voice that you didn't almost hear yourself and tried to do a salute with your right hand but you managed to lift it up only to your chin.

"Ah, don't push yourself too much. The only thing I don't want is you to be asleep for another two days." She said worried, but even though she took your hand from the water and shook it slightly.

"S…Sorry" you said back in the same volume as before. She smiled, still worried.

"Ok, now that it's taken care of, I'm going back to my HQ. If you will need anything, you can catch me there. Also Shoukaku, I will leave her in your care. She is probably hungry and you are probably the only one who is free now." She asked your neighbor.

"Oh no need to worry yourself about food here, we are getting everything in the water. Even if she will feel hungry, she will get everything she needs for now in the water here. I will take care of her if she will need something, no need to worry Admiral." She said with a gentle smile.

"Ok, thank you Shoukaku. You're an angel. I'm sure you will be a great wife one day." Admiral said with a smile and walked away.

"…" Skoukaku stared at the door with red cheeks. You couldn't help but to chuckle.

You didn't even noticed how fast the time flew. Flew. Before you even noticed it was already evening and you were getting better and better. You could move your hands and legs. Shoukaku informed you about your time and that you will be here for another ten hours, so she advised you to grab some sleep and you did. Hopefully tomorrow morning you will be able to take care of yourself self and finally make your introductions to the fleet and Admiral.


Change note: McKay and Phillips doesn't have defined age now. Picture them however old you want.