The situation was becoming more and more desperate by the minute. The Americans and the Abyssals, or should I say what was left of the abyssal since we sunk most of them already, were closing in. Half of our ships were either lost or too damaged to continue fighting. I shot another wave of planes at the enemy. The other carriers did the same. Our planes managed to sink 2 American battleships, 5 destroyers and damaged 2 carriers. However, we only had 1 more arrow(of planes) left before we could only fight with our bare fists(if that is even possible for a ship).

"BOOM!" an explosion shattered the air. I turned and look. Kaga had been sunk! From the corner of my eyes I saw the ship that most probably sunk her. It was the USS Yorktown! And with that we were left with just me, Zuikaku, Hiryu and Taiho that could still launch planes. But with only 1 wave of planes left, what could we possibly do? I looked. The American carriers were falling back, and the battleships were coming forward. This is not good, I thought. When all the battleships were aligned in one row, they let off a humongous blast of shells. I dodged the shells but Akagi and Soryu got hit and with that, they disappeared below the waves. Shit! This can't possibly be happening. We were getting destroyed by the Americans and the Abbysals.

"Everyone, form a defensive formation!' Nagato ordered. We did as she said. Defensive position was where we'd form a circle around us. Any enemy that we saw by ourselves the other person could also see. It was only a last resort. Normally we'd be attacking but in this scenario, we couldn't attack. We were on the defensive all the time. Unfortunately a weakness of the defensive formation was that we couldn't see any submarines that could be lurking underwater. Only the destroyers could detect them. That came to hurt us as most of our destroyers were damaged.

Suddenly, a splash of water occurred where Nagato was. When we turned around she was nowhere to be seen. She had been sunk by a submarine. More water explosions followed, and we were left with less and less ships(they had been sunk by submarines). The enemies closed in on us. The enemy carriers launched their planes and damaged all of us.

This was it! All hope was lost. There was no way we could defeat a fleet that was bigger and more technologically superior to us. I turned to Zuikaku. She was as badly damaged as me. As though she read my thoughts, she began to cry and hugged me tightly. Seeing her cry made me cry too. As the enemies came closer and closer, I closed my eyes. I waited for the inevitable to happen.

Suddenly from out of nowhere, planes started screaming in and cannon shots could be heard. Torpedoes cruised through the water and hit their mark(sunk a ship). I opened my eyes and was in shock. The enemy was in chaos! Ships began colliding with one another in the panic and confusion, ships were blown apart by bombs.

What was happening? I looked in every direction trying to spot the person responsible for saving our lives. I spotted a figure. It was the battleship Bismarck! And she was followed by her sister ship Tirpitz, the carrier Graf Zeppein, destroyers Z1 and Z3, and cruisers Prinz Eugen, the Admiral Graf Spee and Deutschland. The Germans must have sent them, I thought.

The Americans and Abyssals looked at the German ships and decided to retreat. We were saved! Prinz Eugen immediately came up to me and greeted, "Guten tag. That was a close shave. If we had arrived any later you guys would've been sunk."

"How did you know that we were fighting?" I asked

"The Admiral(Karl Donitz) received reports that a fight was happening and immediately dispatched us to find out what was happening", Bismarck replied.

"Well in that case thank you," I said.

"Not a problem. Unfortunately we may have arrived a little late it seems. Sorry for your loss," Admiral Graf Spee said

"Oh, well, we are grateful enough that you came to our aid. It was a misfortune that so many of our precious ships sunk," I said sadly with my head hung low.

"Anyways, we better get going then before more enemies arrived. We got to create a plan to defeat the enemy. By the way your Admiral is at our naval base discussing with our Admiral on the next course of action ," Graf Zeppelin said in a worried tone.

"Ok lets!" Yamato replied.

And off we went, to the Fatherland(Germany) for repairs and to formulate a plan to defeat the Abyssals and Americans.