October 17th

9:00am

Trying to gain more knowledge on the Black cubes was proving to be somewhat of a headache for Sovereign and Resource. They had made several attempts to access the cubes, but to no avail. Indomitable could see the frustration in their expressions and decided to try something. "Have you two not asked Revenge and Agincourt? They might know"

"Well… Agincourt is in a coma" Sovereign replied.

"Wha-"

"A medically induced one. I'm still finding shards in her neck so I felt it best to medically induce her into one." Resource butted in, her eyes not moving away from Agincourt's neck. Some of it had healed nicely but there was still signs that the cube's remains had not all been removed.

"Well… What about your sister, then? Surely she might know what they did to her" Indomitable asked.

"I… Didn't want to ask her. Just in case it was something I didn't want to be told" Sovereign admitted.

"Then I'll ask her. You don't have to be in the room if you aren't comfortable"

"No. She is my sister and I should be there for her" Sovereign responded, steeling herself.

"Very well then. I will still ask her just in case."

Revenge was resting her eyes in one of the other rooms when Indomitable, Sovereign and Resource entered the room. Her little sister gently shook her and she opened her eyes. She looked around for a moment before her eyes stopped at her little sister and she smiled. "Hey. Come for another visit?"

"Something like that. I know you probably won't like this but myself and the others are hoping that you might be able to answer some questions we have" Sovereign replied.

Revenge could see in her little sister's eyes that she didn't want to be doing this, but she knew it had to be done. "I'm not worried, Sovereign." she said in an attempt to comfort Sovereign.

Indomitable took the lead and sat in a chair beside her. "Do you recall much of what the Sirens did to you?"

"I have gaps in my memory. I don't recall what happened in the hours after I was captured. And my memory I think jumps a few times. Maybe for a few hours or so but I think there's at least a week missing from my memory." Revenge began.

"Right" Resource responded, making a mental note to attempt to investigate the missing week more. She and the other two with her had a feeling that the Sirens had intentonally erased that for some reason. Why would need to be found out.

"I was always hurting. It never stopped. Day in, day out I hurt. I wanted it to stop, I needed it to stop. But they never stopped." Revenge continued, her expression darkening.

"You don't have to continue if you aren't comfortable wi-" Indomitable offered but Revenge cut her off.

"No!… I… I need to get something out" she replied. "They constantly kept telling me things using that bloody Cube. They said they'd kill me if I didn't obey them. I… I wanted to resist, but I really couldn't"

"But you were holding back, right?" Sovereign asked, not sure about what happened that night when they fought.

"I… I can't say. Maybe I was unconsciously? I can't say because if I was how was I not dead right there and then?" Revenge replied, her emotions starting to get to her. "H-How am I not dead?"

"Alright. Alright that's enough. You can stop now, Revenge." Resource said as she came up to her in order to calm her down.

Revenge looked from Resource to her sister and somewhat calmed down. Indomitable and Resource left in order to give Revenge some time along with her sibling.

As they walked out of earshot, Recourse spoke up. "The missing week of memory is extremely suspicious"

"I agree. We'll need to discuss this further with Anson and Sovereign." Indomitable replied

"However. We can't send someone out to find some in case the Sirens come back. I have a gut feeling they won't be long" Resource said as they went back into her quarters. Agincourt was still lying in her bed, with the two black cubes sat nearby. "And I have a feeling that these are responsible"

"I won't disagree with you on that. After all, after Revenge was freed from the cube, it wasn't long before the reinforcements came with Agincourt." Indomitable commented as Resource picked up the well preserved cube before looking to the broken one.

"Is it just me, or does it look like there's something moving in there. The broken one doesn't appear to have it but given it's been smashed into many pieces, whatever was inside it has likely been destroyed too" Resource observed. Indomitable took a closer look and had to agree with the repair ship.

"There really is a lot we don't know about the Sirens still. Well hopefully we can learn more about them through research" Indomitable suggested.

"only time shall tell" Resource replied as she got back to work, leaving Indomitable to go check their inventory again, so that they knew what they would be taking with them once they left the HQ.

Indomitable walked down the steps to the cellar to check the inventory when she head Anson talking to someone, once she got down the stairs, she found Anson with Hector, observing some strange objects, they turned to see the carrier standing nearby. "Do you know what this stuff is?" Hector asked.

"It's called Wisdom ore, from what I recall being told. It has plenty of uses but we simply don't have the right tools for it. I'll need to talk to Resource about it, she may know what to do"

"Might be useful to use some of this stuff to make Bulins" Anson replied.

"What is a Bulin, exactly?" Hector asked, confused.

"They help to repair things, mainly for our ships. But I don't see why they can't be used to repair other things. It may have to be something we try out at some point" Indomitable explained.

"I see. Then it probably would be a good idea to create some at some point." Hector replied. "You were coming down here for something other than this I imagine?"

"Yes. I was going to check our inventory. The Soldiers you brought may be wanting to use some of what we have here. Plenty of arms and ammunition for various weapons. I imagine this sort of thing would be of great interest to Sheffield. She is an avid gun enthusiast" Indomitable explained.

"If the fact her guns are basically a pair of pistols wasn't obvious enough" Anson commented.

"And I use them to great effect" Sheffield's voice came from behind them, the trio jumped. How did she get there without them hearing her?"

"Blimey, Sheffy. Don't do that" Anson replied.

"Miss Indomitable, you are correct about my interests. I shall log these for you." Sheffield replied as she walked over and began to go through what they had. The trio then moved over to check on what else was in the cellar.

A few hours passed before they were finished sorting through what was in the cellar. They had some stores of food that could last for a while, plus they still had some of the Wine and other drinks that were usually kept for Her Majesty when she was visiting, but in these times. It wasn't being used and the Royal navy ships imagined their leader wouldn't be too bothered about some drink. They were loaded into crates and prepared for moving into the trucks.

"I count twenty eight Lee Enfield rifles. Split between No.4 and variants. A few Sten 's with two others being used by us Kansen already. Six crates of M1911 semi automatic pistols and four crates with Enfield No.2 Revolvers alongside a pair of Webley 's." Sheffield began once she had finished logging all the weapons and ammo. "A multitude of Lewis and Bren LMG's with two months worth of ammunition for them and 10 crates of grenades."

"That's a lot of gear" Anson commented as she placed down another crate of food supplies.

"The rifles, SMG's and Pistols all have ammunition to fund a small army too" Sheffield added before she opened one of the M1911 crates and took one, pocketing it and several magazines. "I might as well take one personal defence weapon since all of you appear to have done so"

"It's mainly because of our large rigging as you may expect. You don't have that issue though" Anson replied.

"Still. I think I might take this for my weapon collection"

"You have a weapon collection?" Hector asked.

"Yes, Sheffield collects a multitude of weapons. She has her own place in Sheffield where she keeps them" Anson explained.

"The fact she has them there is too ironic"

Sheffield simply stared at them for a moment longer before she continued to mull over the equipment. "Ah. There appears to be more" she added as she noticed some extra objects nearly hidden from view nearby, pulling them out, she opened one and found several weapons that seemed to be out of place. "Did her majesty order these?" she asked as Anson and Hector walked over, seeing what she was looking at. Inside the crate were several De Lisle Carbines. They bore the Royal Navy's crest on the stock.

"No. I think George had these made. She made a few orders for several weapons. I think she forgot about them" Anson said as she pulled out another large crate, finding other weapons that the lead KGV Battleship seemingly ordered in case of anything having gone wrong. Anson mentioned that George had always dubbed the contingency plan as "Operation Biscuit Tin" partially due to the fact the idea came about after Howe made a large amount of cookies one time and put alot of them into Biscuit Tins.

By around 4pm, more weapons were listed and Sheffield had taken ownership of a De Lisle Carbine. "We're going to need another truck for this lot at this rate" Hector remarked, seeing how much more they would need to be moving along with the food supplies.

"We may have to force some of us to ride on the sides of the vehicles if we don't have enough space" Anson commented.

"Well let's get these prepared for loading into the trucks later. I don't think we will want to be hanging around for much longer" he replied before a blast rocked the building.

"Fuck. They're here" Anson said before the Kansens rushed upstairs…