Focused back to the first person who dropped out of the mini SUV;
Verniy knew very well where she stepped into: the security control office. As the name stated, this place was fulled of armed navy.
She greeted them with standard Russian 5.45 x 39 mm. bullets while the receivers were returning a favor with standard NATO 5.56 x 45 mm.
Verniy's bullets were completely delivered as they found their marks on the vivid part like chest, face, shoulder of the target. However, the returned fire didn't reach her. They were reflected or distorted direction from some kind of energy barrier.
'It's like my old day, REALLY!'
"I used to be the enemy of Fog Fleet, but now I'm One of the FOG myself! Such interesting fate I owned here. Ha ha.." She paused and chuckled, she ran her memory back to the old day when Japan declared war against Soviet Union.
She started clearing her way to find out the location of the server room, her mind was wondering in deep thought at the same time.
'At the end, Japan has lost. My country must give war reparation to winners: that include the ownership over me and Yukikaze.'
She blazed all of the current magazine's rounds to a group of mix gender officer, who attacked her with pistols.
'I didn't know what Yukikaze thought about her reassigning to China, but my new life at the time under USSR flag wasn't terrified as I ever thought.'
Observed from all the human she had killed since entrance door aside from the building guards, she noted that most hostiled only hold standard military handguns. She changed from her primary weapon to secondary weapon, use assault rifle against pistol was too much of ammo waste. She gripped the MP-443 Grach firmly as she continued searching.
'I thought that I'd be there as a prisoner, but they upgraded me and welcomed me into their fleet.'
BangBang!
She double tapped an enemy on the left chest.
'So much like my current situation with the Fleet of Fog'
Ding.
The sound of another ejected empty case hit the floor after its' cartridge head exploded out of the barrel.
She smiled, she finally found her destination room.
"Let's see…."
She activated her processing ring to hack into the storage data; the most recent event which the closed-circuit cameras recorded were Akatsuki fired at the ceiling to threaten anyone to cease resistance, Shigure and Supreme Flagship were moving toward the admiral room, and Jintsu gave covering fire for Yuudachi at the weaponry storage area.
She formatted the server computer and all the storage drive; it'd take times normally, but it was done rarely fast because she supported it with her FOG processing power.
To be more sure that the record forever lost, she encoded them with porn (?) and format them for a couples time before she switched back to her assault rifle intending to blast all hard drives to pieces by more devastating power than a handgun (She reserved the rocket on her back for a high threat target).
She decided to deplete all of her 5.45 x 39 mm. ammunition for this task; her AN-94 devoured cartridges magazine by magazine, the repeated ding sound of ejected fired case followed the echo sound of gun blast through the quiet floor.
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'Done'
She slung the out-of-ammo main weapon and held the Russian pistol. She planned to report her successful mission result if not for someone who intended to come here for assisting human to stop her.
The footsteps stopped behind Verniy, she glanced back to see the new threat. She raised her eye brown a little when she registered who had stood there.
They were the duo of 1st Carrier Division: Kaga and Akagi. Kaga retained her serious stoic expression, but a hint of cautiousness could be seen upon seeing an armed teenage intruder. Akagi slightly shivered from the sigh of HER.
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Verniy remained eye contact with both girls, she then smiled.
"I don't expect to see you here, Kaga-san..Akagi-san"
"Hi..bi..ki-chan? What happened to you?" The girl intruder looked similar to Hibiki, but Akagi was uncertain with the look of current Hibiki, Verniy.
"Well, a lot of things happened. That aside, I used to be called Hibiki, Akagi-san. Now, I'm Verniy."
"A lot of things? That includes murdering your base human guard and runaway, isn't it?"
Kaga also heard the rumor about that Yokosuka incident, the destroyer's action before her was a very solid proof.
"Did you realize what you've done?! You killed your own superior and now you make chaos in my base!" Kaga hissed.
"Why don't you listen to my side story, Kaga-san? I don't know what the Human said about me, but the truth is there's an order to scrap Akatsuki to repair me! Like HELL I'd accept that. I won't blame them if they leave us damaged because of lack of resources or whatever reasons, but not sacrifice one life for repair another back to health!"
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Kaga and Akagi were stunned by the news, seemed like they weren't aware of this news like Taigei was.
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Verniy calmed herself down before went on.
"I admitted that the anger acted over me at the time to disobey order, but the one who actually did the murder was Jintsu-san." Former Hibiki confirmed her innocence (?).
"What!?" Kaga felt angry and disbelieved, a quite and little shy girl like Jintsu was a murderer?!
"Now…would you please step aside so that I could get going? I don't want to hang around this place filled with corpses any longer." Verniy confronted the obstacles, she slowly walked toward them.
"NO WAY YOU TRAITOR! Even what you said is true, it's still and order we have to obey. We're tools to protect Humanity, I can't forgive you for your action!" Kaga put more stress on the bow.
"Please surrender, Hibiki-chan. No matter what changed you have, you can't beat us carrier"
Akagi bluffed, she didn't want to hurt her precious (Ex)comrade.
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Verniy halted, got a little irritated by Akagi unintentional insult.
If she was still Hibiki with primary school kid mind set, that bluff might work. But it was a different story when you talked about FOG DESTROYER, VERNIY, who represent the veteran side of survival Hibiki.
If CV detected DD at a far distance, DD was surely at disadvantage as a shorter range fighter.
But right now, those 2 CVs were within close range against her. Did they know what that means?...
Yes! The reverse role.
'She know I've changed, and yet she dared underestimate me!?'
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"Who AGREE to be TOOLS of Humanity? The Human just push that goddamn duty over us!" Verniy countered.
"YOU! Don't you have any pride of being Ship girls, the last stand of humanity against Fog Fleet, at ALL!? ? ?"
"You call that PRIDE!? You stupid, Kaga! We're ALIVE! WE AREN'T THEIR SOULESS TOOLS!"
"SHUT UP! We Ship Girls are tools to obey our superior order, nothing more."
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At this reply from Kaga, Verniy got some good idea of counter-argument against this hard head, she laughed heretically.
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"Easy for you to say that Kaga-san. Well~well, If you refer to us as object that way, perhaps I'm willing to put more effort and happiness into my current job."
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"What do you mean!?" Kaga and Akagi asked at the same time.
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"I used to be ship girls of Yokosuka naval base until I was token by the FOG, thus my current ownership doesn't lie with the Human anymore. I'm Verniy, Destroyer of Eastern Fog Fleet, Ex-Second-Akatsuki-class Destroyer. You hear me, you hard head bitch!?" She taunted Kaga, she reacted with a frown.
Verniy cut the conversation as she started walking with brawling stance.
"As mere tool to obey Owner command, I won't waste more time chatting. I'll crush you this instant!"
The Fog destroyer dashed toward the carriers. Kaga and Akagi instinctively released their arrows to Verniy.
Just a centimeter before they found their mark, they crashed with the destroyer's klein field. Verniy countered with 2 shots of 9 mm. parabellum: each for Kaga and Akagi.
The two yelped from the pain; their outfit got a hole where the bullet struck while bullets were unable to penetrate their skin.
Verniy didn't stop the assault; She smacked Kaga in the nose by the butt of her pistol magazine.
Akagi intended to bear hug Verniy. She completely failed because she was forced to pause her action by a thin layer of energy field, it blasted her away out of the window after that.
"AKAGI-SAN!"
Verniy saw an opening on distracted Kaga, she high kicked Kaga at her neck: sending her crashed into the pile of damaged hardware. Kaga stood up tremulously; she was starting to feel dizzy from the impact of that strong kick. Before she prepared for another attack, Verniy back handed her cerebellum: shut down her.
The silver hair girl quickly rushed down the building, she hid behind a corner and wait for the others to finish their job.
"To all Jackals, the RECORD was destroyed."
The reason why Yuudachi had only a heavy handgun with her?
Well, her main role wasn't defense (buying time) like Jintsu, approach target like Shigure and Yamato, stealing(?) like Akatsuki, or erasing trace like Hibi…Ahem! VERNIY.
Her duty was Sabotage….
Inside her bag were many bars of C4 explosive with attached wireless detonator.
She infiltrated into the arsenal, ignored human armory and headed for ship girls' armory section.
Good Decision!
The remaining navy continued to march in and pick up weapons, left the ship girls' weaponry untouched. They were in a hurry and didn't pay attention to anything, easy job for the blonde destroyer.
She planted all of her bombs in the hardly-to-notice place, covered the area of torpedoes and ship gun shells storage.
Before she reported her mission accomplished, her comrade was faster than her.
"To all Jackals, the RECORD was destroyed." Came the voice of Verniy.
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'Ow..man! I wish I'm the first…..Well, Whatever'
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"To all Jackals, the FIREWORK has been prepared"
The sound of Heavy Machine Guns was incredibly very loud.
The post which Jintsu used to make a stand got mess up really bad; it was obvious as mounted machine gun from military jeeps and copter rained down at the post non-stop.
Jintsu laid her body as flat as possible while she closed her eyes waiting for counter attack. Some stray shots bounced off her klein field. She eyed her bi-pod M60 with 100-round box magazine at her side. She used to set this place as a small machine gun bunker. The idea worked well for local police force until the military jeeps and copter hit the party.
'I Have to take care of that copter first'
She glanced at the RPG.
'There's no way I can take it down without putting a load on my klein field'
Jintsu rolled out of the post, gaining the attention of all heavy machine guns.
Within 10 seconds, she finished aim and fire the rocket at the copter. Those heavy bullets had put quite a burden on her klein field, but it still not reached the critical yet.
BTOOM!
The copter exploded, sending sharp fragments in every direction. Lucky for her, some of the gunners died from them. The burnt copter crashed down on one of the jeeps.
She tossed the launcher aside and grabbed the slung Galil to advance.
"YOU MONSTER! ! ! DIE! DIE! DIE!"
Jintsu ignored the shouting from the resistance survivers. They were struggling to throw any lethal thing they had at the Fog light cruiser, their slaughterer.
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Bang! Bang! Bang!
The last man standing was shot three times in the chest by Minebea P9 as her Galil was just out of ammo. She turned her head back to the entrance, she saw some vehicle blocked her escape route.
Using RPG to blow them out of the way wasn't a wise idea; it was very wasteful for a dead target, not to mentioned that she had only two rockets left. In the end, she removed them out of the way by her pure strength.
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She fired the 9 mm. bullets to their tires, rendered them immobilized
After she finished, she still felt unsatisfied. There should be more things to do about the remaining immobilized jeeps and police cars-
"To all Jackals, the RECORD was destroyed."
Verniy reported in.
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'Verniy-san may have an idea' the light cruiser contacted the destroyer via personal channel.
"To all Jackals, the FIREWORK has been prepared" Yuudachi reported in, but Jintsu just acknowledged the info., she was still intended for Verniy.
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After explained her uncertainty, Verniy answered.
"I suggest you burn them up, Jintsu-san."
"That's a great idea, thanks!"
She pushed all the cars to lean on the ground, exposing their oil storage department to her.
The light cruiser headed to pick up the LMG, and lighted all cars up by wasting entire rounds at their oil tank. While she watched them on fire, she was notified.
"To all Jackals, the INFO had been copied" Akatsuki reported.
"CARGO secured, it's pick up time, Miss Driver~"
Jintu gave a soft chuckle at the last message which mentioned her.
"Copy that! Driver is coming"
After Yamato signaled to the driver, she turned her attention back to the room.
"Well, it's time to get moving, father" Yamato commanded.
Shigure readied to escort her boss and Shouzou out, but Taigei spoke up,while lying on the ground, before the group left.
"Shigure! WHY!? Why have you done this?" Taigei voice was sad. Surely, she just got betrayed from her fellow ship girls.
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The mentioned person met eyes with the speaker, they locked their stare with one another for a moment.
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"Supreme Flagship, I'd like to request permission to take Taigei-san with us. I'll take full responsibility. "
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'Supreme Flagship? We absolutely NEED To TALK, YAMATO-Chan' thought the confused captain.
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'Well, it's not like she alone is a threat to us.' Yamato thought was reasonable, what could a sole submarine tender do? Her groups had 4 destroyers, 1 light cruiser, and 1 Super Battleship!
"I approve; I don't mind about bringing extra CARGO with us as long as you don't let her mess with our plan."
"Order Acknowledged! My lady"
Jintsu drove the same mini SUV to pick up everyone for retreating; she counted.
'Verniy'
'Akatsuki'
'Shigure, High Flagship, Captain Chihaya Shouzou (Target)'
'Taigei ? ? ?' Her eye brown raised, which part of this operation that had thing to do with Taigei? She remembered accurately about operation's details; she had to ask her boss later. Now, they had no time to waste around.
'Yuudachi'
Completed!
"We're out of here!" Jintsu shifted up the gear. The engine roared response to the accelerate pad being stumped upon.
Shouzou surveyed his new company.
'Why did these missing Yokosuka ship girls (is that Hibiki?) call Yamato-chan: Supreme Flagship? How can they acquired these military equipment; they got the God Damn Rocket Launchers with them too!?' The captain widened his eyes when he spotted the RPG-29 in the rear department, M72 LAW slung on Akatsuki's shoulder, and MRO-A slung on Verniy's shoulder. Shouzou gave up on thinking for the conclusion as his brain couldn't take it anymore….
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The car finally passed through the front gate.
'These girls are SOMETHING!' Shouzou exclaimed inside his mind; the devastated cars (with deceased Helicopter) surrounding the way was a perfect proof.
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The Type 73 Light Truck raced along the road which led to the appointed Transporter.
The chance of succeed or failure of the mission rested in Jintsu hand now. She knew the weight of her role very well. The military vehicle wasn't suit for time attack or time trial but she tried it anyway. She challenged time trial with a 2 tons mini SUV!? As hilarious as it sounded, it wasn't a joke to Jintsu now.
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"Jintsu-san, can you drive a little slower?" Shigure called from the back.
"Why? We're in a rush!"
"Seems like Shouzou-san was beginning to…..to throw up…" Shigure plainly interpreted.
"…"
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That got the attention of the assault force. Taigei groped her captain back slowly, hoped to ease him to calm down.
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Jintsu, who just realized that she was still driving, focused back on her task. However, the far away sight in front of her was frightening.
"HANG ON TIGHT! THE TANK IS COMING! ! !"
Since the navy failed to counter-attack, the army decided to send in their reinforcement to help. This Type 74 tank was one of them.
The gunner fired the mounted type 74 machine gun to them from afar, 7.62 mm. caliber was a pain than 5.56 mm. as it had done more damaged to the car body.
"Hey! Someone must blow it up before it uses the cannon!" Jintsu ordered loudly to the rear, expected one of the destroyers to act as she was busy trying to evade the flying bullets, and Yamato was in no proper position for the task.
"I'm on it!" Verniy volunteered.
The rear group watched as the silver hair girl discharged her assault rifle, opened the back door, then swung herself up the roof of the grey SUV.
Upon clearly saw the hostile target, she quickly poped her head back in the rear department and shouted.
"Akatsuki-chan! Hand me the RPG! I need a HEAVY WEIGHT!" She handed her a MOR-A to Akatsuki.
"What! Your MRO isn't enough?" Akatsuki retorted.
"This is a Freaking TANK! not a junk Jeep, DAMMIT!...My MRO-A is for light vehicle only"
"I get it! I get it!" Akatsuki quickly passed her sister a mentioned launcher.
Verniy readied the launcher on her right shoulder.
The Tank machine-gun gunner was alarmed by the Vampir man-pad which the Fog destroyer deployed, he tried shooting but all bullets were distorted by klein field, he quickly told the cannon gunner.
"Blast her with the cannon now! She got the RPG-29!"
"Fuck this shit!" the cannon gunner exclaimed, he knew its' scary power.
While he was adjusting the cannon aim, Verniy weren't waiting for him.
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FAAA-cue!.!.!?
The rocket warhead launched out of the tube first.
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The machine-gun gunner gave up on firing, but the cannon gunner was struggling to his last breath.
"TASTE MY LAST BLOODY BUSTER, GIRL! ! !"
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For every entity in this situation, time flowed in a slow motion;
The spinning cannon projectile passed the RPG shot in the opposite direction point-blank, but they had the same objection to solely delivery packed disaster warhead to the opposing party.
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Shouzou and Taigei froze and paled, they were sure that their lives ended here today.
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But that feeling of dead was not concerned for the group of criminal; they looked no worry at the least, it seemed not to be a facade as well.
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The intense penetrating power of Verniy's shot penetrated through Tank's thick armor like a hot knive ran through butter. Bingo! The bombarding radius reached the HE shells of L7 cannon in the ammo storage section, exploding HE also ignited others type near them like HEAT, HESH, and APDS to berserk on a chain reaction.
KABOOMMMMMM! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! BOOMMMBOOMMMBOOMMBOOMMMM! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
All tank operators were burned to ash inside the miserable-shape burnt tank.
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As for the unknown type bullet which was fired to the group, it was distorted by 1st layer of the 6-layer-colour klein field. It struck on the random trees sending them to misery.
"Good work every one! Especially you, Jintsu-chan~" Yamato clapped, satisfied with everyone fast reaction to use klein fied.
"Thank you for the complement, High Flagship" Jintsu nodded in appreciation.
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Verniy on the roof displayed a satisfied smile.
After some travel distance on the hill, they found the marked building.
Jintsu parked the car and everyone got out of the mini SUV.
"Dispose of the car, Jitsu-san"
"Yes sir! Please go on ahead."
She turned to Yuudachi, the least armed of their team.
"Yuudachi-san, help me to remove the leftover armory from the car"
After the group went up to the building roof, Jintsu destroyed the car with EASE. It was more than ease! It was very OVERKILL; the SUV was blasted away by the last shot RPG-29!
Jintsu thought they should get out of here as soon as possible, so rocket was the best option to destroy said vehicle.
RPG-29 was reloadable while the M72 LAW and MRO-A were one shot disposal: consider the unit cost for a single rocket shot with a set of launcher set equipped shot. She was confident in her decision that it was right.
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May be she considered too deep about the resource, resource manage wasn't a concern for the Fleet of Fog, they had plenty to waste around after all…
"Assault and Suppression Vessel, Zuikaku, reporting for duty, SIR!" Zuikaku saluted
Behind her, stand a Black Hawk helicopter. This was a transporter in the plan.
The defected ship girls paid attention to Fog Zuikaku as it's their first time seeing her; put aside the different clothing style, she appeared shorter, younger, and more energetic compared to THEIR ZUIKAKU, but they had the same remarkable twin tails hair style.
"Prepare to take off in five minutes!"
"YES, SIR!"
Zuikaku eagerly ran to start the engine from her commander order.
"Yuudachi, Spark up the Firework, please."
Operating window poped up before Yuudachi, she pressed the red bottom and a big red count-down window inserted.
"Ten seconds to Rock & Roll, SIR!" The blonde hair destroyer notified.
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The Fog vessels except Zuikaku looked at the direction of the Kure naval base, this included Shouzou and Taigei who had no idea but followed them anyway too.
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The small red diode attached to entire detonators inside the arsenal, which Yuudachi had dropped, glimmered as the fuses started reacting from the detonate ordered.
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Murasame began to regain consciousness.
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Kaga checked Akagi condition on the ground.
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Shiratsuyu went to the admiral office, only to find out that Shouzou was missing.
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Mamiya was helping the medic staff to carry injured personnels and dead corpses to the base hospital.
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Verniy brought out a cigarette (?)
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Kisaraki and Mutsuki were panicking around aimlessly.
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Verniy lighted up the fire from her Zippo (with little irritation as it wasn't Russian!) and inhaled.
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Shouzou and Taigei gulped.
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Verniy exhaled the smoke.
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Yuudachi's heart beat rate increased.
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KABOOOOBOOBOOOOBOOOOBOOOOM! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
The SET of Earth shattering sound could be perceived from their copter park building; great explosion pushed up bright flame, thick smoke, and visible dust toward the sky and surrounding. The earth erupted like it was struck with hailstorm of British Grand Slam.
"OH MY GOD!" Shouzou shocked.
Taigei gasped at the catastrophe before her eyes.
"Get moving please" Shigure gestured for their GUEST to get on the Back Hawk after Yamato hopped in.
Shouzou got on first, he gave Yamato a vengeful glare after seated.
"Why did you do it?"Shouzou was still calm, as expected from an experienced military man. He had to shout for the matter of fact that the rotor engine was loud.
"For DO IT you mean?"
"Blow up the base"
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"Cause uttermost chaos to distract the military from our escape, do you satisfy with my answer, father?"
"If it isn't my Base, I would say that it's a Brilliant Idea! !" Came sarcastic remark of Shouzou.
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Out side the Heli.
Verniy smoked for a last breath before tossing the cigarette away, she was the last passenger left. She finished watching the firework and headed to the copter.
'Ikazuchi, Inazuma, wait for me. We will retrieve you soon'