11895. Nobody is to ever mention Fountain of Youth around Kongō. Ever. We had to use some ah... otherworldly sedatives in order to wipe her memory and we would prefer to not have a relapse.
11895a. Not around Admiral Gotō either, he just sighs and reaches for his hip flask. He has consumed a worrying amount of alcohol at this point.
Rule by Senbonbakara
"Why me..." Admiral Gotō thought to himself as he lay over Kongō's shoulder as she steamed across the sea. It was not his first time thinking or saying that, and he had a sinking feeling it would not be the last. At his point he dearly wished he could empty his hip flask so he could at least go into an alcohol induced stupor but his hip flask was back at the base. So he settled for grumbling to himself.
"I never thought things would escalate so fast..." Mused the Admiral as he thought back to events roughly an hour ago which led to this point.
-1 Hour Prior-
"I'm sorry, repeat that again." deadpanned Admiral Gotō as he looked blankly at a tired and disheveled Fubuki who was slouched in a chair.
"Yukikaze somehow entered the Bermuda Triangle and brought out a number of things, ranging from the very first Yen dollar bill to a T-Rex and the lost crew of Flight 19." replied Fubuki in a monotone voice which echoed her current physical state. She was also staring at the ceiling.
Admiral Goto blinked once. Twice. Opened and closed his mouth a couple of times and sat very still for an entire minute. Then he finally spoke in a carefully controlled voice.
"The Flight 19 that disappeared over the Bermuda Triangle 75 years ago?"
"That very flight, and they somehow retained their youthfulness."
That new piece of information caused another pounding headache and he clutched his head.
"Oh and they found the Fountain of Youth. My apologies for not saying that earlier." Fubiki added as an afterthought.
At this Admiral Gotō slammed his head into the desk with a resounding thud. Silence reigned in the office for several seconds before Goto asked in a tired voice.
"Does anybody else know about the Fountain of Youth?"
Before Fubuki could answer, the vent cover popped open and Kongō dropped down, grabbed the befuddled Admiral and disappeared back into the vent.
"ByeTeitokuisgoingintotheFountainofYouthandYukikazeisgoingtotakehimoutandAdmiralGotowillbeforeveryoung!"
It took a grand total of two seconds for the exhausted Fubuki is make sense of the battleship's sentence and by then they were long gone.
-Present time-
Right now Kongō was set on a dead straight course for the Bermuda Triangle and no matter how the poor Admiral tried to convince his extremely enthusiastic girlfriend to drop this entire matter she wouldn't budge. He had given up at this point and was trying to make the best of the situation when he heard a soft thud and a grunt of pain from Kongō. He craned his head backward to see her remove a larger than usual dart from her neck.
"HAH! Such a weak tranquilizer will not defeat my BURning...lov-" Kongō then started to pitch forward into the sea. Before she could drink a mouthful of seawater several submarines shot out of the water to support her.
"Hiya Admiral, how's the water? Oof a battleship sure is heavy." Iku grunted under the weight and braced herself to better handle the weight.
"Very funny Iku, where are the others?" Admiral Gotō, having been dropped into the water after Kongō collapsed, dryly replied.
"About 1 kilometers out Admiral, they should be here soon to take over from us dechi." Goya replied this time.
"Why me?..." this time Admiral Gotō moaned out loud.
