Rule by Falkeno

Rule 10937: We don't know how we missed it but it turns out HMS Furious has been a secret science girl, we are therefore adding her to the science girl watch list, once the relevant admirals have recovered. Incidentally please welcome the Inflexible-class of aircraft carriers.

Furious hummed as she strolled into Vanguard's workshop, she didn't have to worry about running into the mad shipgirl as she was off doing some tv work in Norway and was spending some time with Tirpitz whilst she was at it, which left her lab unoccupied, and that meant that whilst Furious was up in Scapa, having been dragged north by Admiral Graham, who was paying Collingwood a visit, she could work in private.

This was not the usual form of 'work' because unbeknownst to everyone, Admiral and Shipgirl, Furious was a secret science-girl, something she had long since kept under-wraps, as the title brought more trouble (and oversight) than it was worth and so Furious had kept herself to theoretical work, and small scale experiments that wouldn't catch anyone's attention. Finally, she found what she was looking for, a desk that was hidden from direct view, quickly she set down her laptop on the desk, opened it and hit the power button. But as she was about to sit down when she noticed a metal box perched on the chair. Hesitantly she picked it up, unsure if it was about to blow up in her hands, only to see the word 'Junk' scrawled on it in red marker.

"Ok where to stick this then?" Furious wondered as she looked for a place to stick the box, only to see a pile of other contraptions that had been also labelled as junk "eh, here'll do," she muttered to herself as she gently threw the thing into the pile, before turning to sit down, placing a pair of headphones on and started to work, not noticing the box begin to power up.

...

"Agh finally!" Furious sighed contently as she hit save on her masterpiece, a hypothetical carrier that if it had been built, would have solved nearly all of the RN's problems post-WW2, she'd even managed to craft some hypothetical service careers whilst she'd been at it. But as she removed her headphones, she heard a dull whining noise coming from behind her, turning she saw the pile she'd put the box in, glowing with a strange green light, the box itself being too bright to see. Then lightning sprouted from the pile, arcing all over the room, causing Furious to shield her face on reflex, only to feel a bolt arc past her, and then it stopped, hesitantly Furious opened her eyes, only to find her laptop smouldering, however before she could even begin to fathom the swear words that she was planning to scream, she heard a shrill scream from the box. "Shit!" was all she could mutter before the room exploded.

...

One second Belfast had been walking along, talking with Admiral's Graham and Collingwood, who'd she'd run into when she'd been taking Henry and Frankenstein, who was a surprisingly active cat, for a walk around the base, when a giant column of light had erupted from Vanguards empty workshop, quickly she had scooped the pair of animals up and joined the two admirals in their mad dash to the workshop, only to find thick smoke billowing out of it.

"Here keep an eye on them, I'll see what happened!" Belfast stated handing the Animals to the admirals before dashing into the building. Belfast didn't have to worry about the smoke, her NBC protection that had been fitted in her 50's rebuild made her immune to the effects of the smoke, quickly she pinged her radar so she could see if there was anyone that she'd need rescuing, or to at least find out what had blown up. Weirdly she got back 5 large contacts from a corner of the lab that she'd known to be packed with Vanguards scrapped experiments and other bits of junk, quickly she rushed over, with the smoke beginning to clear so she could now see with her own eyes, and there she saw the familiar form of Furious, her white hair, turned dark grey from the smoke.

But as she approached, the other four figures raised their heads to look at her, The first had dark blonde hair in a midlength cut, blue eyes, a blue shirt, a black waistcoat and bow with a Sam Browne belt; the second had similarly Auburnish-red hair that Belfast did, only much brighter red and considerably longer, dark bluish-grey eyes and the same outfit as the first only the shirt was black, and the bow and waistcoat were light grey, and that she had little maple leaf ear studs; the third had thick brown hair and dark blue eyes, this time with a red shirt and a dark grey bow and waistcoat; finally the fourth one had straw coloured hair in a short bob, light blue eyes, a white shirt, light blue bow and waistcoat and a pair of kangaroo shaped ear studs.

"Um, who are you?" Belfast asked as she approached, trying to work out how big these girls were, only for the first of the four, the one with dark blonde hair to reply.

"I am HMS Inflexible, lead ship of the Inflexible class aircraft carriers, this is Irresistible, Impregnable and Invincible," Inflexible explained, pointing to the Auburnish-red-haired one, the brunette and the other lighter blond, in turn, signifying who was named what. Belfast had however one simple question.

"I'm sorry the what class!?" Belfast asked as she realised exactly how big these girls were.

...

"So let me get this straight, Furious has been a closet science girl this entire time?" Graham asked as he, Collingwood and Belfast sat in Collingwood's office, trying to work out what exactly had happened.

"That is correct Admiral," Belfast noted as she looked over a copy of the report that Resource had compiled when she'd examined Furious and the 'Inflexible's'.

"And that she then designed the hypothetical Royal Navy equivalent to the Midway class, only slightly bigger and capable of using anything up to Hornets?" Graham continued as he got up and moved to look out of the window.

"Yes she did" Collingwood replied as he put down his copy of the same report. "And then she accidentally managed to turn on one of Vanguards failed experiments, which then turned her hypothetical design into reality!" he continued.

"Pretty much sir," Belfast answered as she closed her copy as well, "and to top it all of, she created fictional history's, including having Irresistible sold to Canada before she was completed in 1945 and sold Invincible to Australia in 1976" she added, prompting a sigh from Collingwood.

"Hm, Belfast would you please find Georgie have her forward this report to the Canadians and Australians, and have her get some training organised for the Inflexible's, myself and Admiral Graham have to have a word" Collingwood ordered politely, prompting a nod from Belfast before she got up and left. But as the door clicked shut, Collingwood took a deep breath before speaking. "You want to go first or shall I?" he asked prompting a sigh from Graham.

"Hm, why don't we go together," Graham replied as he turned to face Collingwood, who simply nodded at this.

"Ok then, 1, 2, 3" Collingwood stated calmly, before turning to his colleague.

"YEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!" the pair cheered as the pair began to laugh hysterically as Collingwood threw up all the papers on his desk as Graham did a celebration like he'd just scored the winning goal in a football match. Meanwhile, halfway down the corridor, Belfast let out a little chuckle as she heard the two mean celebrate before she went off to find KGV, wondering how the other Admirals would take the news.

...

Admiral Lombard sighed in frustration as she read the latest reports from the Canadian Government, again someone was trying to cut her funding, and she was getting frustrated, and then she saw the notification that she had a new email, and so expecting it to be more bad news, she half-heartedly opened it, only to find it was a report from HMS King George V, Admiral Collingwood's secretary, sent on his behalf. And so she began to read the report, and as she did so all the frustration drained away, and by the end of it, Admiral Lombard was cackling like Cruella de Vil, which caused the nearby South Dakota, who had been on her way to request some funding for an experiment, to do the only sane thing.

"Nope! nope! nope! nope! nope! nooooooope!" Sodak shouted as she turned tail and fled, with Lombard not even noticing.

...

Admiral Jane Collins sighed to herself as she sat at her desk, she was a slight woman, with chestnut brown hair in a ponytail, dark green eyes and a decent tan, she was young for someone of her rank, and as she had only enlisted as an officer 5 years earlier, and had been promoted to Admiral after being the only person brave enough to take the job, with everyone else having refused after hearing about the shenanigans at the other bases. But they needn't have worried as being the Commanding officer of Australia's shipgirls, one of the saner commands compared to the antics that someone like Goto got caught up in, she had found that she was spending most of her time being bored, there wasn't even enough paperwork to keep herself occupied throughout the day. Collins was about to weigh up if it would be worth it to skip the rest of the day and go off surfing when she got an email.

"Ooh, what do we have here?" Collins wondered as she opened the email finding a long and rather boring looking report, but as she read it, she found an odd trail of drool trailing down from her open mouth, and that was rightly so, after all, it wasn't everyday you learned you were getting a free supercarrier.

...

Admiral Briggs looked at the screen in front of him, it was the report that the Royal Navy had sent out announcing the summoning of the Inflexible class, they're specifications and where the four were being sent. and so after taking a deep breath, he gave his, his navy's and his country's reply to the news that the Midway's weren't the top of the pile anymore, and that they had just lost the supercarrier monopoly.

"FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!" Briggs shouted aloud, and across the country, in San Diego, Admiral Holloway and the Midway's were doing the exact same thing.

Authors notes
The Inflexibles are a custom design of mine, if anyone's curious I have the specs for them, as myself and the discord server hammered out them a month back, with the knowledge I was planning to do this.