The Day Everything Changed

by Tringapore

Our shipgirls heroes Shoukaku and Zuikaku will face their most daunting task yet when they face Abyssals teaming up with American ships for revenge. Will it end horribly for our heroes? Or will they overcome the threat? Who will win? Stick around to find out

3. Chapter 2: Sortie! Enemy spotted!

15 minutes into our sortie and without an enemy in sight, we decided to launch scout planes to find out where the enemy was. As soon as we launched our scout plane, we saw dozens upon dozes of aircraft. Definitely not friendly aircraft(Abyssals)!

"Everyone in attack formation! Prepare for attack!", Nagato shouted. The 7 of us carriers and 5 light carriers immediately launched our planes to attack. It was a wild air battle. Planes shooting one another, it was an awesome sight to see. Out of nowhere more planes arrived. They seemed like American planes. AH yes, I remember now. F6F Hellcats and F4U Corsairs. I read it from a book before. They ripped our planes to shreds with their 6 50 cals and we were helpless to stop the turkey shoot. They were too superior to our planes.

While the air battle was raging, destroyer Fubuki shouted," there! behind the mist!" We all turned to see what was coming out of the midst. And we were horrified to what we saw. 10 Wo class aircraft carriers, 15 Nu class light carriers, 20 Ru-class battleships, 10 Ta class Battleships and dozens of cruisers(both light and heavy) and destroyers. They looked as if they were full of fury and out to sink us.

"Look, behind us!" Kongou exclaimed with horror. We turned back and saw American ships. 15 aircraft carriers, 30 light carriers, 40 battleships and nearly 100 cruisers and destroyers. This must be a nightmare, I thought. All of us stood rooted to the ground, or should I say sea. We were stunned. Both outnumbered and outgunned, what could we do?

"BOOM" an explosion ripped through the waters and the sky. We looked to where the sound was heard. It was destroyer Akatsuki, and she was heavily damaged. How? I thought. "BOOM!" another explosion was heard. This time Yuubari was heavily damaged. We were all perplexed. How could Akatsuki and Yuubari get heavily damaged all of a sudden? Unless... UNLESS. It finally dawned on me of the possibility that the enemies could have submarines.

"Everybody watch out! There could be submarines underwater!" I exclaimed.

The destroyers and light cruisers immediately got ready their depth charges, ready to sink any submarine that they could see.

As the enemies came closer and encircled us, I thought, this battle may be my last battle. And so too the other ships. And my beloved Zuikaku.