"Come on Zuikaku faster", i urged Zuikaku. We needed to hurry. From the looks of things there wasn't much time left till the abyssals and the Americans attacked.
After a while we finally made it to the square where everybody was gathered to see Naka's performance. Ah Naka, how should I describe her? Bubbly personality, always cheerful and dreams to be an idol. She's the idol of our naval base yep. No one could compare to her singing. Sadly, I had to interrupt her performance because this was too much of an emergency. I took the microphone and said:"The Admiral has told us that the abyssals and the Americans are coming here to attack us and that we must be prepared for an attack at any moment." Many people started to laugh. I can't blame them. We've always faced Abyssals in our battles and have always overcome them. But I think they were laughing because they heard Americans. They must have been thinking Americans? Attacking us? What reason do they have to attack us? Fortunately, Nagato came up the stage and affirmed that what I said was sadly true. She told the shipgirls to prepare for combat immediately. At this, everyone stopped laughing. In fact, their faces changed from laughter to upright horror.
Suddenly, out from the speakers came the Admiral's voice. "All ships prepare for combat. We are under attack I repeat, we are under attack! As soon as you're ready everyone set off to engage the enemy!"
Immediately everybody went off to prepare to sortie. Battleships were equipped with their big guns, destroyers armed with their torpedoes, cruisers brimming with guns and torpedoes and us aircraft carriers carrying our bow and our stack of arrows meant to be planes. All of us at the naval base stood at the ready, waiting for the Admiral's orders to depart to attack. All of us were nervous, not because of the abyssals but because of the Americans. We had not a single clue what the Americans were bringing with them. That was where intelligence came to play. Knowing your enemy, what he's equipped with, how many soldiers or in this case ships he has, and where was he. Unfortunately we had none of those intelligence. It was all too sudden. We didn't have time to sortie an intel fleet to get an idea of the enemy.
Finally at 15:00 hours, the order for attack was given. And so we went off, not knowing what will happen. All we had to do was to pray that the enemy wasn't strong and that luck was on our side.