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Opening the hatch to the flight deck on the Lexington, I had to shield my eyes, had sailed through a bit of a tropical storm to get here, and when I say a bit, I mean we rain coming down sideways and winds strong enough that she advised I stay inside, lest I get blown off the deck.

Once my eyes had adjusted to the bright light, the second thing I noticed was how warm it was and I was suddenly regretting having winter kit with me, especially knowing that my summer kit was on its way via the monthly supply ship that would be due at Midway in two late next month. Undoing my jacket and shirt, before taking off my cap to wipe my forehead, I then look aft, just to make sure no planes were on the deck, before looking towards the bow and I see something that makes my head tilt to the side; a big pool lounge chair in the center of the flight deck, with long pink hair hanging over the end of it, walking towards the chair I ask, "Lexington?"

Right after I asked, I see a book get lifted up by a slender arm, just as I hear a woman stretching, then she sits up, her pink hair coming up over the edge of the chair, and when she turns to face me, I felt a lump in my throat. Lexington was in a white bikini that had a red fabric flower right between her boobs that seemed to draw my eyes in. She gave off a soft giggle, before moving her hands over her boobs and teasing, "Oh my, Commander Cooper, do you see something you like?"

My cheeks got so fucking hot.

Tearing my eyes away from her chest, I cough into my hand to clear my throat before I asked, "So, uh, how far out are we now?"

I hear her get off of the chair and the sound of flip flops walking on the deck as she walks up to me and teases, "Why, are you looking to prolong this trip and enjoy the company of pretty ladies, all to yourself?"

Tugging at the collar of my undershirt, while doing my best not to look, I say, "From my understanding, I'm going to be surrounded by pretty ladies for the foreseeable future."

"That is a fair assessment, Commander Cooper." She says to me, but I can sense there is way less flirting in this tone of voice.

Risking a glance at her, I see she's standing in front of me, her arms crossed across her belly with her head tilted to the side and I ask, "Have you ever been to Midway?"

Her cheeks went a little pink and she sighed, "I have, and it feels like it was a lifetime ago. It was early in the war, and not long after I got seriously hurt, my hull, my Lexington class hull, was considered unsalvageable, this rendered my rigging useless and I was towed back to the mainland where I was left comatose till," she pauses to gesture to the hull we were on, "this was ready."

Looking around at the Essex class hull, I found myself asking, "So, what was it like? Going from a Lexington class to an Essex class?"

Lexington frowns and turns away from me as she shrugs and says, "Strange, I remember my old self, the things I loved, the things I enjoyed, but when I touch my old staff, I don't feel connected to it. When I think about Sara," she pauses and brushes some hair behind an ear, "Saratoga, my sister Lexington, I don't feel the same attachment to her I once did. I still love her like a little sister, but, it's different now? Like it feels like a distant attachment," she pauses and gives a sad laugh, "I feel more like Tico is my little sister, despite her technically being my elder sister now, due to hull numbers."

I carefully place a hand on her shoulder and I try to offer some supportive words, "Hey, it's not all bad right?"

She looks at me with a raised eyebrow and a smirk as she says, "Tico wasn't kidding, your hands are warm."

I pull my hand away, very quickly and mumble, "Sorry."

She turns to face me and leans in to whisper, "I don't mind, sometimes warm hands are nice."

My mouth dropped open while my cheeks got extremely hot again and she laughed before patting my chest and asking, "You're fun to tease, Commander. But to answer your question, we're about a day out from Midway."

"Oh, good." I say as I look down at my feet, and I add, "Not that I don't like being around you girls or anything."

Lexington pats my arm and says, "Commander, I'm putting on a little concert tonight for the little fleet we have, mostly because I still like to sing, so please, join us in the hangar at nineteen hundred, okay?"

"Sure, I'll do my best to join you then." I tell her with a smile before turning and heading back below decks to try and find something, anything, I could use in the heat.

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After we docked the girls I was traveling with had gone off in different directions, leaving me on the docks, by myself. As I started to make my way towards the command center, taking my jacket off in the process and hanging it over my shoulder, looking down I felt my cheeks get a bit hot as I saw the sweat marks. Hanging my head I groan, "Warm weather kit cannot get here fast enough."

It didn't take long till I hear some voices, so since I was already lost on this tiny island, I figured might as well ask for directions. Looking around I saw what looked like four women on the beach, playing volleyball. There was a slender and short blond in a pair of shorts and a tied-up red bikini top from what I could see from behind, a tall woman with shoulder-length dark brown hair and man did she have a nice butt from what I could see in the black bikini from behind. On the other side of the net was another woman with light brown hair, she was in a blue and white one-piece and starting to jump in the air, and the last one who looked like she was in her late teens with a pink bob of hair and a tube top bikini, set the ball up into the air. The woman in the one-piece spike the ball down with a thunderous force, there was no way the other team could stop it, or so I thought. The woman with dark brown hair dashed forward, fast, like faster than I would've thought possible, she dove for the ball, her arms outstretched. While she almost floated in the air during the dive, the ball came down and bounced off of her forearms, sending it high into the air. The woman that dove hit the sand, just as the one that had jumped comes down, when her feet touch the sand, I can see that she has yellow eyes, when she looks at me, they go wide and she calls out, "Heads up!"

I look up to see the volleyball on its way down, directly at me. Considering how hard they seemed to be hitting it, I had a feeling I might be heading to the sick bay after this.

I close my eyes and just kind of accept my fate, when I feel someone grab my arms and pull me in a direction, when I open my eyes, my face is buried in the bust of someone and I hear her ask, "You good?"

Moving my head up to look at my rescuer, I see her cheeks are pink and she has the coolest looking eyes, one blue and one gold, she also has this gold triangle in her hair, and that was when I noticed she was the one with the dark brown hair and I ask, "How?"

Her cheeks get a little more pink and she asks, "If you're good, would you mind getting your head out of my bust?"

Oh!

My cheeks get hot and I step back and rub the back of my head and say, "Yeah, um, thanks." Looking past her to the beach, which easily had to be close to two hundred yards, how did she get over here so fast?

She noticed my expression and laughed as she says, "I am Georgia, the fastest battleship ever designed, I'm similar to the Iowa class, but I've got bigger guns."

Right, I mean I know that kansen tend to outstrip what humans can do, but got damn, she's fast.

Rubbing the back of my head before I ding a chest pocket to take out my orders as I ask, "Comm… Captain Robert Cooper, I'm slated to take over this base tomorrow, I'm trying to find my quarters or the commander center, can you give me a hand?"

"I got you, Captain." She says with a smile before adding, "Can you follow me to my stuff and then take out your phone?"

Following along, when we got down to the court, Georgia pointed at the girls in turn, saying while pointing at the blond, brunette, and the pink-haired one each in turn, "Cleveland, Baltimore, and Pensacola."

The blond tilted her head to the side as she turned to face me, yeah, I was right, she's pretty slender and really athletic looking, she puts her hands on her hips and grins at her name, Baltimore tried to cover herself a little as she mumbled, "Sorry about that Captain, I didn't know that shot would get near you."

I wave a hand dismissively as I say to her, "It's all good, I'm fine." Looking back at Georgia I felt myself gulp as she bent over and started digging in her bag, I was right she had a nice butt. After a second she stood up again and face me with her phone out, so I took mine out she then scrolled through something then swiped up and I got a notification on my phone of shared data from Georgia.

"All set, that's a map of the base, you just need to tell it where you want to go and the map will give you directions, Captain." She says to me, drawing my attention back up.

"Thanks! I'll uh go and get myself squared away, and I look forward to getting to know each of you." I say to them before I turn and leave, but stop and wave to the four of them before continuing on my way.

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After finding the front door to what was going to be my quarters locked, I went to the command center, and surprisingly, it wasn't locked up, at all. Granted the lights were off and no one was in it right now, checking my phone I saw that it was still only early evening, but I guess this place is a bit more relaxed considering it is such a small base. Still, I made my way up to the second floor and found a door with a gold plate that said, CAPT. Cooper. I felt myself smiling from ear to ear as I touched it with my hand, this was it, this was real now! Opening the door, I was surprised to see such a cluttered office, a stack of comic books in one corner, and two doors on different sides of the room, going to the one on the left, I see that it leads to a kitchenette with a fridge that sounded like it was trying not to die. Going to the other door, I open it up and feel my jaw drop open, it's fucking huge! I've got windows on the back and side wall, with bookshelves on the other walls, save for a small couch, coffee table, and a couple of chairs. In front of the back wall of windows, I see a low set of cabinets as well as a nice hardwood desk that had a bit of a red hue to it, behind the desk was a large plush-looking chair.

Sitting in the chair, I pull open the center drawer to see a keyboard and a folded letter on top of it, as soon as the drawer opened up fully, a monitor slides up on the corner of the desk. Turning my attention to the letter I read it out to myself, "Welcome, Captain. While this base is small, the girls here are first-rate and never forget that, Captain, they are women, not things. Treat them well and they will bend over backwards for you. And as a word of advice, keep an open mind; I met the love of my life here. Captain Glover."

Folding the letter up again, I notice a keycard sitting in the second row of keys on the keyboard, picking it up and flipping it over, I see a sticky note on it, "The keycard to your quarters. There are two copies, this one and one for your secretary. Don't worry the girls are good, they put it back when they are done on your desk."

Taking the keycard, I make my way to my quarters, I needed a good night's sleep so that I could really be in a position to tackle this place tomorrow.

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