Currently working on the final chapter, but even if I finish today I know better than to post anything serious on April 1st. Instead, have a non-canon omake by hanatoro on the Spacebattles thread, "You should see the other guy."

P.S.: Random historical fact of the day: Seventy-one years ago, the largest amphibious landing in history (even larger than the Neptune-Overlord landings in Normandy in June, 1944) kicked off when the U.S. Tenth Army landed on Okinawa to mixed omens. Why mixed omens? It was both Easter Sunday and April Fools' Day!

Enjoy the omake, and happy April Fools' Day!

Disclaimer: I own neither Halo nor Kantai Collection.

You should see the other guy.

It was, Perth decided, a very good thing that she had skipped lunch to sortie against this contact. Even on an empty stomach it was still a challenge to avoid her body finding a way to bring her last three meals back up.

The girl before her was a horror show, plain and simple. Her face was covered in blood from the hole where left eye used to be, her neck had burn marks on what was left, something had taken a three inch chunk out it.
Her left arm ended abruptly at the elbow, the ragged stump torn and bloody and her right leg wasn't in much better condition.
The girl was acting extremely alive for some whose ribs where literally showing, Perth could actually see that one of her lungs had collapsed and that her spleen had numerous bullet holes.
It seemed that the only part if her that was even relatively intact was her lower right arm where a strange boxy looking rifle was cradled against her side.
Perth had never really put much stock in the tales if zombies and other kinds of undead, even despite her own mystical origin the thought of a corpse getting up and walking around was simply ridiculous. However when faced with this shipgirl who should be dead, was dead if there was logic in the connection between the girl and damage she had taken, as she slowly shifted to better face Perth, that belief was crumbling fast.

In light of this horrifying revelation the first words from Perth's mouth were so amazingly dumb Perth smacked her face into her hand as soon as she parsed what she had said.
"Ma'am, are you alright?"
Defiantly not one of her best moments, Perth so expected to shouted at for asking such a stupid question with such an obvious answer that when she received a reply she almost couldn't believe it.
"Oh, I'm fine. Thanks for asking."
That was it, no shouting, no scathing remark, not even a trace of sarcasm made it into the injured girl's tone. She completely believed that there was nothing wrong with her current state of existence.
This utter insanity had finally broken what little restraint Perth had left after it had been worn down by a crushing operational tempo and an empty stomach still looking for something to send upwards.
"You're fine, just fine. How in the world can you be, just fine? By all rights you should be dead!"
The target of Perth's rant just shrugged her shoulders.
"Eh, I've had worse."
"Worse?!" Perth's eyes bugged out of her skull. "How could you have had worse? Your arm's come off!"
"No it hasn't"
"Yes, it has."
Perth felt her gorge rise as the girl waved her stump around a little.
"It's just a scratch."
"A srat– Then what do you call this?" Perth gesticulated wildly at the girls exposed ribcage.
"That's just a flesh wound."
"A flesh wound? It's just a—" Perth cut herself off. Breath in, breath out. Okay Perth, just be calm, let's start from the top.
"Sorry, how's about we start again, properly this time. I'm HMAS Perth, D79, Leander-class light cruiser."
"UNSC You Should See, C-331, Halycon-class light cruiser. I'd shake your hand but mine's a bit full and I'm short a spare."
Once again Perth could feel the bile at the back of her throat as You Should See flapped the stump of her left arm in demonstration.
"You don't see many of us light cruiser running around anymore so us old girls have got to stick together."
"Riiight." Perth drew the word out as her mind latched onto the only thing she could make sense of without try to throw up. "You Should See?"
"Yeah, You Should See the other guy!"