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A red sun, over hell

Is this what I was doomed to always see in the morning?

No my friend, the antiochus found an innocent time and brought it to ruin

Friend? me? I didn't expect you to think of me as such

You lived far longer than any other friend I've known, and frankly, you may be the last best hope we have for peace, so please, don't die tomorrow...

Okay, I'll die the day after that

.....well played

Such were the words that buzzed around a half-siren half-human all-crazy blonde haired commander, on the eve of a massive audit for the entire base, he had gathered the flagships and charles in a meeting room on the one place he barely let ANYONE see, much less tour.

"Admiral Christian I am not a patient man, why did you call me here?" Charles asked

"and why not call the other commanders?" Bismarck asked pointedly

"because out of all of them, I don't know a single one guaranteed to pass the audit, and thus we'll have a leak if I tell them and they don't pass" Chris said

"why the secrecy?" Sovetsky Soyuz opined

"and why is chkalov allowed here? no offense" KGV asked

"I'm head scientist, as such what he says must relate to that" Chkalov said

"It does" Enterprise said with a stern voice, one that made warspite, the knight commander and thus sworn guard of the royals, shiver

"Enty knows a bit about why I called you here, and here's full disclosure, this carrier isn't some special retrofit gear for enty"

"it isn't? curious, I thought it would be" Yamato said, her tails swaying thoughtfully.

"This isn't any carrier though, its a carrier from my timeline, and is more advanced than anything we can have here, even nautilus and enty's upgrades pale in comparison" chris said

"so what is it?" yamato asked

"CVN-80, in a way you can call it Enterprise III" chris said

everyone raised an eyebrow

"a third enterprise? how strange" Soyuz said

"well get used to it, because its not going away, and is so advanced I can tell you everything without any risk of the sirens picking up on it...largely because I'm semi-bound to it" chris added

"comrade...are you a kansen?" Soyuz asked quickly

"No, I have some sort of connection but I'm not like you, to be honest to become you would be to become more like my siren half, a machine for war.....I would never be like you...." chris said sadly

Roma spoke first "so.....you could never enjoy the splendor of what we have, I'm sorry..."

"Its fine...I also can't give enty the ship because aside from the tech leap, it also would kill me......." chris added morbidly

"and the reason you haven't had it replicated is due to the tech involved?" charles asked

"yes, which brings me to the main reason I called you here, as you may have guessed, all my efforts against the sirens in this timeline have been without this baby constantly backing me"

"I'd assume so, since according to enterprise's report, you've only used it in combat once...to fight the sirens off the royal isles" charles said

"that is correct sir, its a necessary limitation to constantly hide it, should it ever be destroyed, the unfathomable power it affords me would be for nothing, and we wouldn't be able to replace it in a pinch" chris said

"what DOES it do for you?" chkalov asked

"It gives me unlimited energy, heals all my wounds, I can spy on anyone, anywhere, anytime, using its electronic warfare systems, use its cyber warfare systems to hack into any device and take it over, and with the jets I can replace with siren material at any point, which also goes into repairs for the ship, my effective attacking range is far beyond even that elite siren compiler" chris said

"damn...." was what most of the reactions boiled down to.

"and yet even it wasn't enough" chris said, "fleets of ballistic attack submarines, guided missile surface combat ships, and nuke-carrying aircraft, even they couldn't stop a full out siren world war, oh believe me we fought well, but dimensional manipulation was the one thing we couldn't counteract, even when we integrated siren tech, it just wasn't enough"

"........no kansen?" charles asked

"nope, not a single one, we were without them, THEY DIDNT EVEN LET US HAVE ANY" Chris slammed his fist into a table in anger

he regained his composure quickly

"but now that you have us, as long as we keep going with your planned tech developments, surely we will do better?" soyuz pondered

"well....normally that would be true, your abilities surpass mine, being able to fight in a mirror sea much more effectively than I can, but....as soon as we were able to fight back....we learned something..." chris said, his face darkening

"The sirens wanted to protect us from the greatest threat to humanity..."

he then projected a mental recording of eldritch horrors and countless soldiers fighting them, giant metallic abominations, spikes, spines, tendrils, tentacles, kraken-like mouths, perversions of sea monsters, little demonic plankton, a macabre swarm of things that looked like they were created by metallic hades.

"These.....are the threat I'm preparing us for" chris said

everyone looked at the recording in horror, the humans were corrupted and converted in plague-ridden masses of flesh and...fluid.... before being burned up as cooked meals.

"The X.......leviathans of my nightmares....." chris said slowly

"They came and reduced several vast amounts of land to some kind of lovecraftian abstract painting, they couldn't be stopped no matter what I did........4 major leviathans attacked the earth, I killed 3, but that fourth one....I sealed it under a volcanic prison and it only stayed sealed for 10 years tops, ever since I fought an endless war as the world died around me, my friends dying to try to keep this thing from threatening anyone else...even if we couldn't keep it dead, we could try to contain it to this world....." chris said, tears forming down his eyes.

"But you didn't succeed" KGV said in a sympathetic voice

"I don't blame...no not now... just...if we have any hope......I have to tell you this......we need to develop without the sirens help, they will not be our salvation even if they claim to be, I hate to admit it, but the idea that sirens are here to help.....its all a lie...." chris said angrily

Enterprise hugged him softly

"the X are coming...thats all there is to it, and the sirens are following a script to see our development in hopes that we'll defeat the X when the time comes" chris said

"Why not talk with the sirens about this?" richelieu finally opined

"Because they're after me, apparently I'm a threat to their plans...."

everyone felt a sense of confused fury.

"So they want to stop you, because you're threatening their plans...by bettering azur lane? no wonder you tried making an anti-siren gas weapon..." chkalov said

"It was a molecular accelerator to melt them" chris corrected

"regardless........I think we can all agree that from here on out, we will fight the sirens first, then when the x come, we fight THEM" charles said

everyone nodded, the anti-X initiative had begun

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A warm day floods the base with a sense of dread, they cant hide from it, they cant run from it, the greatest threat to their efforts against the sirens is coming.

BUREAUCRATS *DUN DUN DUN*

"Enty, remember what we discussed, if they interview you separately, you and I did not have romantic or sexual relations" Chris said

"Got it, you haven't made me the happiest woman in eagle union" Enterprise said with a shoulder nudge and a wink

"Are we clear on that satoshi?" Charles asked

Akagi answered for him "Of course, Satoshi knows, Akagi shall slice anyone that tries to take her dear satoshi away from her hehehehehe"

Charles, Enterprise, Littorio, Dante, Soyuz, Shturmovik Asimov (thats his last name), Richelieu, Maximillian, Bismarck, Schultz, Lockhart, and KGV all thought the same thing

"He is screwed, and soon after, so are we"

Fleetchat dm between chris and enty

Sehotec: If she goes out of control, you shoot first and ask questions later

Nuclear_Ghost: Got it

End of dm

"Maximillian, do not let your ego get in the way of honesty" charles said, before he turned to dante "please dont talk about any paradise or hell", he then turned to asimov "honestly you should be good", he turned to schultz "deny EVERYTHING", he then turned to lockhart finally, "good luck"

Everyone nodded, then with a salute were dismissed.

"And christian" charles said before chris could walk out

"yes?"

"congratulations on your engagement" charles said with a rare smile

"thank you sir" chris said with another salute

XXXXVVVVVXXXX

At eagle union dorms, Chris is casually letting eldridge fly by sitting on his shoulders with her arms spread out while he addressed the entire faction

"My fellow eagle unioneers, I have not been entirely truthful to you, I have indeed been audited already, to face an inquiry in hostile territory where I couldn't be protected by all of you, but we still have an audit to get through, everyone will be examined to see if its worth contributing to this alliance, most of you will have to file a survey of opinions, but a select few of you will have to endure a thorough inspection, I have compiled a report of all of you over the past few months for them to look over, which hopefully means less for you to endure, that said, I will alleviate one of your biggest jitters" he said before pausing.

Everyone was looking at him with worry, not worry about a leader, not about a commander, but worried about a big brother, a father to his soldiers, a friend to all of his allies, and the true hero to stand next to a true hero.

"I will say that my audit and physical examination went well, and after a talk with one of the big four, under new rules, the alliance will need a flag officer leading every faction to expand our logistical ability, and under recommendation under fleet admiral William F Halsey jr, by approval of secretary of the navy andrew wilson, and the president of the eagle union, I hereby introduce to you, the flag officer commander for eagle union"

He took off his commander coat and cap, and replaced it with a rear admiral's coat and cap.

Everyone cheered and applauded as he let an officer fasten some medals to his uniform.

Once that was done, he raised a hand to call for silence.

"As part of this change, my flagship will be constantly deployed for courtesy voyages when the need arises, and will fly my banner in port when I am here, per regulations" chris added

"But....that is not all, to better handle logistics and ease command, there wont be a fleet triumverate anymore, instead there will be a council of fleet flagships, of which there will be seven for eagle union, members changing per the orders of the admiralty if needed, and thus, I call to order the big seven of eagle union, Saratoga of the First Fleet, Iowa of the Second Fleet, Enterprise of the Third Fleet, Illinois of the Fourth Fleet, Kearsarge of the Fifth fleet, Essex of the Sixth Fleet, and lastly, of the Seventh Fleet, Nautilus"

All seven marched forward and let Chris give them gold wreathed eagle pins to signify their command, they stood in line, as chris rolled out the name of the officers to oversee regional logistics, omitting the third fleet for an obvious reason.

"That said, you may have noticed I omitted the third fleet, and that's NOT because the third fleet is my command, I'd still have to have a secondary officer to take over in case I cannot personally be out there, as well as a secondary ship, and while the secondary ship I already have lined up, that being yorktown or hornet depending on who is available, it is my substitute officer who has not had their identity disclosed, because it is in my opinion that as long as they sail, THEY are the true commander of their ship"

Everyone was baffled in confusion, all except for one.

"Allow me to disclose their identity now, the right hand officer to the rear admiral of the eagle union third fleet, primary secretary to the commander of eagle union's forces in azur lane, flagship of the third fleet, and my beloved ghostly avian archer, Chief Warrant Officer Enterprise!"

The other six kansen stepped aside and let Enterprise come forward, chris saluted her, she saluted back, and after the salute, Chris let her come to his side, angled in such a way she was able to watch his back despite standing by him.

Everyone was taken back in surprise, a kansen FINALLY had an official naval rank, and one of such honor right off the bat, Enterprise looked downright bashful.

As soon as the shock wore off, the first people to react were Yorktown, Hornet, and Wasp, who rushed her in a big ol' sibling hug, as everyone cheered in appreciation.

when the cheers and hugs subsided, chris did some ceremonial wrap up words, lead enterprise away, motioning for the yorktown sisters and their honoraries to follow, illinois too.

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"Alright rear admiral, what do you got for us?" Hornet asked

everyone sat down in yorktown's dorm, the traditional meeting place for the enterprise-yorktown dynasty, and chris looked triumphant, hammann and northampton were curious, essex....was in a cookie jar.

Enterprise looked nervous, though was chuckling.

"Okay....you two have something to say, tell me, is this about your romantic getaway to europa?" Yorktown asked with curiosity the likes of which could only be found in a very nosy older sister.

"don't tell me you're pregnant already" hornet teased, making enterprise fluster.

"I-I'm pretty sure thats VERY much possible, c-considering the hotel has banned us from renting the room again" Enterprise said with a shaky breath, but her smile betrayed her inner sense of victory, "but that isn't what we wanted to say, as we dont know if its even possible yet"

"Yeah...regardless, I saw the letter y'all left me, how I should propose to enty already?" Chris said with a piercing stare while enterprise tried not to become smugprise

Yorktown and Hornet tried to hide behind Wasp who hid behind Northampton who tried to hide behind hammann

"SHE DID IT" they all said at once, pointing to each other

Essex got out of the cookie jar and smirked, knowing she had nothing to do with it.

"haha...well, I just want to ask, how STUPID do you think I am?" he said with a glare

everyone began to sweat nervously, except Illinois who just laughed internally, trying not to make a joke.

"l-look-" yorktown said trying to defend herself but chris raised a hand.

"I know I'm a depressed self-destructive guy at times, but I think its pretty obvious I'm more clever than friedrich" chris boasted, some distance away a battleship could be seen growing a black aura of menace, as if she had just been challenged.

"well...yes..." Northampton admitted

"So lemme ask you, did any of you suspect I was gonna use that romantic getaway to pop the question?" Chris asked

this armor piercing question made almost everyone facepalm, except Essex, Illinois, and Hammann

"Thats why I didn't sign that letter, to borrow the expression you once used when you accused Howe of making those cookies, "it was so obvious stevie wonder saw it coming" Essex said cheekily.

"Well put iron detective" Chris said with a smirk.

"T-to be fair, you're so unpredictable..." Yorktown said with a guilty face

"That's fair, but point is, by the time I had read that letter, enty and I had enough time to laugh as long as we wished, because she called it" Chris said, wrapping a loving arm around smugprise.

They took off their gloves and revealed their engagement rings.

"I proposed first, she made a ring for me some time after, and well, we're here now~" Chris said with a smile.

Everyone was stunned to silence.

For......5 seconds.

Within another 5 seconds, chris was yeeted off his chair and wrapped in measuring tape, his clothing tags being analysed, noted on a notepad, and then he was being carried away to another part of the dorm for a weight test.

"YORKTOWNNNNNNN" Enterprise said angrily, making Yorktown stop dead in her tracks

"He....hehe...sorry enty" Yorktown rubbed her head in embarrassment as Chris recovered from the dizziness.

"I appreciate the forward thinking" Chris said when he fully recovered, "but it wont be for awhile yet, gotta plan that as we go"

Hornet nodded, before yeeting towards chris, but was stopped by someone tugging at her bra

"Hornet......" Enterprise said CALMLY

Hornet pouted "I wanna hug your fiance...."

Enterprise sighed and let go, Hornet hoisted chris up in the air in a big ol' eagle union hug.

"THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU" she said excitedly, before letting chris down, Illinois hugged him and Enterprise

"I get to have official parents, EEEE" she said with giddiness as she flung them out the window by accident while trying to spin them around in a big hug.

"THATS OUR DAUGHTERRRRRRR" The engaged couple said before laughing while they flew in the air, not caring to turn into their jet mode.

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Lockhart felt fatigue and inert displeasure as she saw the royal navy inquiry vessel dock and disembark.

"Monarch....I just want to say, they can't have you shut down again, I'll fight" she assured her companion

"hm....." monarch said downcast

They all knew it, lockhart's situation was dire, she wanted to cry, run away, vanish, but she couldn't...she HAD to stay.

Everyone had planned for the eventuality, there were a lot of fears, unicorn had let yuni comfort lockhart several times, tea was made of her favorite brew, and other commanders had given her flowers.

It allowed her some peace of mind as she walked to the auditory vessel for....the trial.

XXXXXVVVVVVXXXXX

The chamber on the ship had its walls painted with stars, the jury and judge positioned appropriately, with the podium for the accused in the center, and any defenders sitting behind the accused.

The defenders were mainly the royal navy kansen, with one seat mysteriously absent.....

"where the hell is chris?" monarch asked pointedly to her sister

"I actually dont know....he should be here" Prince of wales said

"Probably paperwork" KGV said

But everyone was hushed....the trial began

"Your honorable judge mental presiding" somebody said while making a dick sucking motion

"that will be all brandon" judge mental said

"Miss lockhart, you stand here to defend your actions and your service, you have been not only commended, but condemned, commended by your allies, but also condemned for invading the dragon empery over tea..." the judge said reading from a list

"Yes sir....the report should state we ran out and didn't get needed supplies quickly enough"

"And who would be in charge of that?" the judge asked

"either my superiors or, in the event of needing foreign supply, commander satoshi of sakura"

"and where is he right now?"

"I assume preparing for his audit, we're all being audited"

"then he will have to testify about this in HIS audit, very well, are you aware of the charges?"

"yes, 300 million pounds" annabelle replied cheekily

Charles from his spot groaned, chris's corruption was widespread.

".....okay then...but we have serious issues to discuss here, your record is spotless aside from the dragon empery attack, of which one must ask, why the bloody hell did you kill so many people?"

"I...didn't intend to...they wouldn't give up the tea"

"Millions of empery citizens will not forgive you for this" the judge said

"in her defense, we desperately needed it to cope with the loss of queen elizabeth" prince of wales said

"you were not permitted to speak battleship, sit down" the judge said sternly

wales sat back down

"on that topic, why are the king goerge V not scrapped yet?" the judge asked with a glare

"why should I abandon these ladies who still have fight left in them?"

"Because you have a duty to do whats best for your country, and letting giant hulking voracious ineffective battleships consume resources is NOT whats best for our country"

"And is it YOUR place to decide that? are you parliament? are you the prime minister? in fact where's our sovereign?" Annabelle asked

"And IF battleships are so inefficient, then WHY was monarch, the more efficient and powerful design, sealed away while these battleships were fighting off the sirens?" her question was fit with a glare

"THAT IS ENOUGH" a voice roared out

every royal navy ship knew that voice, a britsh admiral had come to call

"I will not allow you to criticise his majesty's naval doctrine" the admiral said, "this insubordination, along with your acceptance of those fag machines they call aviation battleships, is specifically why I called for the audit, you have refused to extend royal navy policy of aircraft carrier first to azur lane, have drained his majesty's treasury supporting out of date concepts, and conducted an unauthorised invasion of dragon empery which has lead to communist forces attacking hong kong, which WE ARE CURRENTLY STILL TRYING TO DEFEND BY THE WAY" the admiral growled

"what naval doctrine sidelines battleships without just cause, because they're out of date? have you SEEN eagle union? they still have the texas, saratoga is being converted into a supercarrier, why shouldn't we take care of our own, especially after so many died?" lockhart challenged

The admiral turned red in the face

"judge....I know it is your place to carry out proper judgement, but I am taking over"

"that violates-"

"SILENCE" the admiral ordered

"lockhart, your defense, as well as commander charles's testimony has proved to me that you are no longer fit to represent us in azur lane, for constant insubordination including holding battleships past their service limit, releasing monarch, and invading countries illegally, you are to be stripped of your rank and discharged from the navy completely, and be forced to live in oceania" the admiral determined

"YOU CANT DO THAT" Monarch said, standing up

"Annabelle has been the best commander we've had since you bungled the siren defense operation, queen elizabeth died, if I recall correctly, BECAUSE YOU DIDNT WANT THE RAF TO HAVE THE CREDIT, THE ROYAL ARMY STAYED MILES UP THE THAMES, Edinburgh, Elizabeth, Norfolk, Suffolk, Sussex, Jamaica, Beagle, Bulldog, Sirius, the monitors, the Cheshire sisters, Janus, EVEN HMS ENTERPRISE, ALL DEAD, BECAUSE YOU POSH PRICKS REFUSED TO HELP" Monarch's anger was such that her royal aura, a usual method of increasing her siren killer power, set brandon on fire

"OH FUCK YEAH I'M SIZZLIN NOW, bet that'll get your pussy wet"

Monarch just punched him

"You insubordinate malfunction" the admiral said.

"The only malfunction is in parliament for not firing you when they had the chance"

The admiral left the room, everyone was adjourned.

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The admiral left to his command room, he was sure of it, he had to act, and so, searched his records, until he found what he was looking for.

XXXXVVVVXXXX

*at the royal navy dorms*

Lockhart felt her heart sink, she was being dismissed AND deported.

"look, we're not letting them take you, we will fight for you" Monarch assured

"will anyone else?" lockhart asked, looking like she was on the verge of a breakdown

Monarch paused, but sighed.

"I can't fecking believe this" Belfast said, uncharacteristically crude, she popped open some hard liquor.

"Woah...." was all anyone said

"please belfast....edinburgh isn't worth destroying yourself" annabelle pleaded

Belfast paused, and sealed the liquor, her shoulders drooping

Warspite was the first to hug Belfast, letting her cry, she had buried herself in her maid work and had become dead inside, and warspite knew that all too well.

"I can't go against my country...." Annabelle said.

"We're going against traitors, plain and simple" Monarch said bluntly

"lets cool ourselves off first, mind you he mentioned charles, should've known he'd be a stickler for the rules, but he's basically condemned you to a far worse fate" Wales said sadly

Everyone look lifeless, even the safe ones.

"I don't think it was his intention, he knew you had to be removed for such a crackpot move, but perhaps he's unfamiliar with the royal navy leadership" Warspite suggested

"well of course he wouldn't be familiar, last I heard he demanded you work while mourning" annabelle spat.

"actually....he never apologised for that..." Wales said, stroking her chin in thought

Monarch thought about this.

King George V thought long and hard, perhaps there was a way out, something didn't add up though.

"Halt thy thoughts" Duke of york said suddenly

everyone's eyes were on her

"If they have our reports, then how come thine pompous superior blamed YOU for releasing monarch?" Duke of York asked

Everyone's eyes widened, that was true, annabelle had nothing to do with that, she hadn't even been in a commander's role until AFTER the liberation of london, and she thus would have little idea where monarch was kept if the KGV sisters didnt even know she was still alive.

she wasn't even in the general area.

The only thing that she had done relating to monarch was.....keep her from being retired again.

Monarch flashed back to her capture, she was attacked by black suited individuals and carried to a room, she remembered the complex she was in, a scrapyard, but she still had her rigging when she broke out.

She thought long and hard, before remembering something they said.

"She'll be hard to dispose of, people love her after all, we'll wait until she's forgotten"

"Disposed of......" Monarch muttered, then she remembered the courtroom walls, before her eyes widened in fear.

"George, wales, I know why lockhart is being scapegoated and deported" Monarch said with a shaky breath

"what is it?" Wales asked calmly

"think, remember, the courtroom ship, remember the wallpaper of the court chamber?"

"Of course, it had star-"

Starry walls, Stars in a chamber of law.....

STAR CHAMBER

Everyone's eyes widened with horror.

"Now I know why chris wasn't there...." King George V said with absolute death on her face.

Wherever he was, whatever he was doing, it was clear to every royal navy kansen ever.

The knight had to defend the heart of the royal navy once again.

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Monarch was put in charge of finding help.

Lockhart had just been stripped of her rank, and now time was money, she had long prevented her kansen from being scrapped, and now she had lost all the power to stop it.

And with the evidence that they weren't EVER going to be given a fair audit or trial, monarch was terrified, they weren't going to be just scrapped, and she could feel the clock ticking.

As she got to eagle union dorms, she felt someone rush after her.

"GET BACK HERE"

It was brandon from the trial, and he had several blacksuits with him.

"BOG" monarch hotfooted it through the dorms, running in without much care.

Brandon and his goons marched through the dorms and stunned any witnesses as they chased monarch

"suck, swallow, this is why I told you to stun them BEFORE they could leave the ship" Brandon raged as he got out a cigar.

"well excuse me lobsterback, you didn't even bother to use the teatime protocol" suck replied

"NOBODY LIKES TEA, ONLY CUM SHOULD BE DRUNK" brandon fired back

".....I know you're eagle union but what the bloody hell" swallow opined

"we gotta fuck this whore before she fucks us up like a bunch of shitheels" brandon said, disposing of his cigar and rushing to find monarch.

Monarch for her part had hidden in a locker in a hallway, it was cramped, but she still fit.

she could hear the voices getting closer.

"Alright she has to be down here, my wet cunt detector's going off, let's knock on some doors" brandon could be heard

As he went down the hall of rooms, he kicked open doors, ready to shoot, but kept finding nothing.

"SHOW YOUR WHORESELF UP NOW, I GOT A JIZZ PARTY TO ATTEND TOMORROW"

he knocked open more doors, until he opened one door that had a sight that made him recoil, he closed the door to try to act like nothing happened, but then the door opened again.

Monarch opened the locker out of curiosity, she saw chris and maryland come out that door and proceed to pummel brandon and his blacksuit agents VICIOUSLY.

In the small corridor of the hallway, they couldn't raise their guns, and soon all of them were laying bloodied, battered, bruised, even somewhat electrocuted, barely conscious, on the floor.

Chris, who monarch realised was wearing his training undershirt (I refuse to call it a wife beater) and brawler gloves, seemed downright pissed.

He turned to the wrecked pile of humanity, and spoke.

"Next time KNOCK"

He then went back inside with maryland.

Monarch followed them in, finding herself in a training area, this was the workout quarter of the eagle union dorms.

Chris and Maryland were quick to noticed Monarch.

"Holy shit when did you get here?" Maryland asked upfront

"I ran here, sorry for barging in" Monarch said apologetically

"At least you have some fuckin' manners" Chris growled as he sat down to finish his gatorade.

"Okay first thing's first, I'm here to ask, where the bloody hell have you been?" Monarch asked as Maryland got out her gatorade and resumed drinking

"Gettin' audited, filing testimonies for other audits to back up my fellow commanders, implementing reforms, being barked at by my superiors, got overstressed and decided to spar with mary here to bleed off, I....don't tell me lockhart's audit has happened already...." chris asked hopeful.

"It did.....they put us on trial, we were all huddled into a ship, put in a chamber with stars on it-"

Chris raised a hand to pause

"star....chamber?" he asked, his eyes widening

"...you've heard of it?"

"Yeah, special court in england that handed out extrajudicial punishments for nobles and well off folk who could buy regular courts, became extremely punishing, ignored due process, eventually abolished in the 17th century" chris said

".....well then you know what the trial was like, a sham, rigged, and now they've sentenced annie to exile in oceania, and she's been stripped of all her ranks, and all ships deemed obsolete are to be "disposed of" monarch said grimly

Maryland and Chris looked at each other, and felt anger boil up.

"Chris here should've known about the audit, its part of protocol..." Maryland said

"I didn't know, I was not informed of the audit happening, chuck usually tells me about this.....what the fuck"

"If you weren't told, then they never wanted the full story...just enough..." Monarch trailed off

"okay THAT IS IT" Chris's eyes glowed with electric rage.

he then contacted charles

"chuck the royal navy's about to mass scrapped what the FUCK is going on- wait....you mean you.....if thats true then why didnt they wait for my submitted report- OH FUCK THEM TOO, alright I will"

"ohohohohooo this is gonna be good" maryland replied with excitement

"Mary, get colorado, west virginia, sister penn, tennessee, illinois, missouri, wisconsin, kearsarge, and indiana" chris ordered

"Alriiight~, the eagle union brawler's club is gonna represent, what's the order chief?"

"I've gotten orders to defend the base from potential royal navy covert op forces...." chris said as charles walked in

"Thats an affirmative, eagle union isn't as vicious as royal navy when it comes to disobedience, and allow me to apologise to everyone for everything"

"huh?" everyone asked

"its my fault royal navy left the first time, its my fault they're about to dispose of half the navy, it'll be my fault the royal navy lives" charles said

"aight chuck, what else do you want me to do?"

"do not involve enterprise, I know how much she means to you, but its imperative you work with the battleships and kearsarge" charles replied

"I understand....I hope she will" chris replied sadly.

"Didn't you engage her? I think she knows you know what you're doing, have some confidence soldier" charles said

"And this is why I'm loyal to you" chris said

"actually, spekaing of me, hakuryuu told me to give you this"

chris was handed a blue bladed sword with a white draconic hilt, ID locked to him, and when he gripped it, electrical bolts began emitting from the blade

"niiiiiice" he said with a grin

"alright then solider, get out there and protect azur lane, I'll go get other factions to send you more battleships" charles said

"but what about the intruders on the deck?" chris asked

"I got someone to clean up that trash" charles said as this person walked up to chris

"Oh fuck no" chris said in terror

"guten tag commandant, pleasure to see a fellow blood knight~" roon said with a psychotic smirk

Chapter Text

"Roon"

"Chris"

Both of them stared at each other as everyone watched, tension filling the air.

"S-shouldn't-" KGV said worriedly before Seydlitz barged in

"I'M SORRY COMMANDANT I- wait why is everything fine?"

"Seydlitz, you won't need to escort me this time" Chris said

"Hehe, no he won't be needing that~" Roon said with a giggle

"Roon, may I ask why chuck unchained you?"

"Insects need to be cleaned" Roon said bluntly

Chris wasn't off his guard, but something about that was beginning to awaken something within him.

His desire for battle, his desire for blood, his desire, for murder.

"Roon my fair lady, perhaps indeed we shall need to smite some insects together, though why chuck is okay with it I have no idea......is there something you're not telling me?" he asked charles

"a lot of things, because you don't need to be swarmed with every little detail, just follow these orders, take over the star chamber ship, gather all intel, and ready the assembled kansen for battle, you'll need them" charles said

Chris sighed in acceptance "okay boss" he walked with roon in tow

As they walked, they did some chattering

"So I hear you're allowed some "dogfood" every now and then?"

"Ja, they feed my rigging SS officers every once in awhile" Roon said

"Wow, eating humans, I didn't think you'd be up for that"

"We consider them untermensch, nothing more than the sirens I slaughter with glee~"

"Wow, dark, then again I find those who commit war crimes for the evulz to taste a little bit better with salt, add some cajun spice and you can expand as much warmth from their bodies as you can~"

"Mein gott, you were a cannibal?"

"I had to eat what I had to eat to survive when my government betrayed me, not my proudest moment, I'll never do that again" chris said

"Then why are you giving me recipes?" Roon asked

"I don't give a shit, they're nazis"

The corridor was filled with unhinged laughter that made, in the following order, most kansen walk the other way, graf zeppelin and kaga however were aroused.

XXXXXVVVVVXXXXX

"You want one of my WHAT?" Enterprise asked baffled

"I need one of your dresses" Chris said

"WHY THE FUCK DO YOU WANT TO WEAR MY CLOTHES?"

"BECAUSE I HATE IT WHEN YOU WEAR THEM" chris stuck out his tongue

"This is not the time for roleplay-"

"But it IS time for me to infiltrate the royal navy inquiry vessel, and ngl, wearing your black gown will make me blend into the night better" chris said

Enterprise, stressed out and mentally fried, just nodded and tossed her silver laurel and heroic finery dress

"I don't care if it gets burned I can repair it easily, but for heaven's sake use a clothing cube when you're done" enterprise asked tiredly

"I will dear, sorry for the workload" he kissed her forehead which relaxed her a little before leaving enterprise's field of vision

When he left, enterprise groaned in dizziness and felt herself nearly faint

"thats...not supposed to happen" she thought to herself, "I'll need to check with vestal once the reforms are done"

XXXXXVVVVVVXXXXX

The royal navy's star chamber boat was heavily guarded, and several ships arrived full of blacksuits

The admiral greeted the blacksuits with a salute

"Glad you came, there appears to be a problem, our first strike team hasn't responded in several hours, and the royal navy kansen have abandoned their dorms, we have reason to believe they're hiding in eagle union's forms, so be careful, their commander is able to terminate sirens and has a powerful CV as an ally" the admiral said before dismissing them.

He left to his quarters, his yellow eyes unaware of the two infiltrators that have just found his ship.

The infiltrators snuck past all the guards and soon, chris activated an interference protocol that knocked out all power, and many guards.

"Aww I wanted to kill them" roon pouted

"Huh...didn't think that'd be so-" chris paused

"what is it?"

"normal humans wouldn't be affected by a shutdown protocol" chris said

"you mean they're cyborgs?" roon asked, "or kansen?"

"cant be kansen, the reason it doesnt affect you is because your nature is not artificial" chris replied, hugging roon

"awwww thanks commandant" roon smiled

The hug was broken off by the sound of rising bodies.

The guard troops stared at chris and roon, eyes glowing yellow.

Chris felt shock, then disgust.

"THOSE BASTARDS...." he began to recoil.

"Those are...siren eyes...are they ALL some kind of male siren?" Roon pondered

"No, worse" Chris said as one lunged at him and he stabbed them, the blade causing actual blood to gush out.

"They're cyborgs.....they're.....ABOMINATIONS" chris growled

Roon felt herself being attacked and she quickly unleashed close combat strikes to fight them off.

The judge from earlier showed up and unveiled his siren augmented weapons

"Stand down, we have you surrounded"

Chris and Roon just smiled

"all we're surrounded by is fear"

*sounds of a sword being raised and a rigging roaring to life*

"AND DEAD MEN"

*the only thing they fear is you plays*

Meanwhile.......

"So...." Colorado asked as she walked with the other battleships to the dockyard to back up chris "you think they need us?"

"What makes you say that? of course they need us, commander charles ain't someone to waste a bunch of brawlin' power" Maryland said

"Even so....ROON was sent, thats never a good sign"

"You're right about that colorado" Seydlitz said, "you'd think herr commandant would've known better"

the walking party soon found kearsarge returning her planes

"picking up siren transmissions from beyond the horizon, seems the royal inquisition party is in league with them after all"

a new piece in the puzzle, a puzzle that was slowly beginning to make sense.

When the sirens approached, indiana and maryland summoned their mech-like riggings to do battle, punching and firing at the surge of mass produced vessels, with others firing from their full sized riggings, determined to protect the base

Back with Chris and Roon

"AND HENCEFORTH THOU SHALT BE CAST INTO THE FIREY PIT" Chris chanted as he sliced through his 100th siren-human goon

"They rip apart with such a juicy sound, I like it" Roon smiled, blood covering both of their bodies

"Agh damnit I got blood on enty's dress, she's gonna kill me" Chris said, being able to regain his sense of his surroundings in the calm

He grumbled and stored it in a clothing cube, getting another cube out in a flash before roon could see much, and giving himself navy blue cargo pants, combat boots, navy blue undershit with blue phoenix wings embroidered on it, and brawler gloves.

"damn you fight loose" Roon said approvingly as they braced for their next group, which didnt arrive immediately

"Strange...." chris thought as he let roon's rigging "clean up the evidence"

Chris decicded to interface with the ship's records.

he compiled a vast dossier about the group they were dealing with, numerous records about "star chamber justice", some files on lockhart, the great scrapping effort, a disposal of the KGV class and all other battleships, the order of the star- wait...the star?

as he focused on this, he was jacked out of the connection, forceably, and knocked to the floor

"I see you've managed to figure it out" the admiral from earlier said with a smile as he put a boot on chris's torso

"Admiral......I take it you don't have a name" chris said

"yep, I don't, I did once, name used to be oliver agisi, but that man is long dead" the admiral said

"so, you have a stupid last name, threw it away, along with your entire life, to be with the sirens" chris said, grabbing the admiral's leg and tossing him off as he got himself to stand upright

The admiral got up slowly, his eyes glowing yellow a bit, as he straightened himself

"Takes one to know one, look at you, a cyborg of siren tech, still trying to be human, the observers seem to be scared of you, I don't see it" he glared at chris who was unvexxed.

chris looked around, everyone else was gone, that wasn't a good sign

"So you're here to kill me, is that it?"

"that's the line short of it, we got orders straight from the sea lords' offices, I shouldn't have had to come down here and deal with you myself, but you made quick work of brandon and his chaps, they STILL haven't responded"

"Heh, kinda funny, I just clobbered them with maryland, not worth my time killing, I have no idea where they are" chris said

".....what do you mean you dont?"

"Someone else was in charge of cleanup, don't tell me you think I'm the only danger in this base ya lowly waste of slag" chris taunted

The admiral got hot under the collar in rage, and he attacked chris, who dodged

"woop, missed me, so this is what the admiralty's siren training does to a motherfucker, gotta say I ain't impressed" chris said as he continued casually dodging.

The admiral summoned numerous sirens and sent them spiraling at chris, who punched and stabbed at them effortlessly

"Analysis, you meet expectations" the admiral said robotically as his siren parts took over for a moment

Chris realised he needed help, and decided to figure out where roon was, he analysed a seemingly empty bit of space and tapped it, revealing an awakening roon

"nnngh...somebody knocked me out...what's going on?" roon asked

"we got pulled into a mirror sea, kill sirens" chris ordered, roon began obeying with sadistic enthusiasm

roon ripped and teared her way through the siren hoard as the admiral stood baffled

"HOW IS SHE AWAKE, I HIT HER PRECISELY WHERE IT SHOULD'VE BLOCKED HER NEURAL PATHWAYS, HOW IS SHE IN MY MIRROR SEA"

"you fucking idiot, the moment I realised everyone else was gone I knew you had us surrounded by a mirror sea" chris said with a smirk

"I would praise you for isolating me, but you think you've already won by that alone, you're no threat, a siren would've just attacked me" chris said before attacking the admiral with a thundershot

"OH YOU HAVE GOT TO BE JOKING" the admiral screeched as he summoned his siren rigging and attacked chris.

the gunfire actually hit chris and he coughed

"fuck......guess I should eat my words"

the admiral kept firing but chris began dodging, roon was still slaying siren after siren, even the siren cyborgs were nothing for her.

"I keep telling them one siren killer is better than 10,000 sirens, but they dont listen" chris snarked as he continued playing defense, summoning electric blasts that destroyed the shells fired at him, though he seemed unable to attack

"You cant fight forever" the admiral grinned as he added more salvos to his attack, clearly he had a battleship style augmentation

Chris looked at roon and saw she was tiring out, and sighed

"You're right, I should've gone all out from the start" chris said as he fired electric blasts that fired the admiral's rigging.

"AGH, bloody hell that hurt" the admiral groaned as he readied more sirens to aid him

"I don't care how strong you are, you will FALL" the admiral shouted as he got his rigging repaired and had 2 MK 3 breakers attack chris

Chris however lost all fucks, and sliced through 10 humanoids at once, before letting his eyes glow, and firing a massive lightning bolt across the mirror sea, shattering it.

Everyone around the fleet noticed the battle coming to their reality, and soon the battleships joined the fight to back chris up

"holy shit how long have you been fighting these scrapheaps?" indiana asked as her mech punched a MK II breaker to bits

"Long enough to know they bore me, roon's almost spent, get her out" chris ordered, colorado was quickly on it, taking the exhausted siren killer as she lynched a cyborg with a small intestine.

"Brutal..." she chuckled as she got roon out of the way before rejoined the fight, the combined assault was decimating the sirens the admiral summoned, and everyone took to noticing him

"New siren?"

"an abomination weevee" chris said

"damn..." was all west virginia replied with before ducking under maryland's giant fist, which knocked the admiral down in front of chris.

the admiral however seemed unharmed

"rigging shield is useful after all" he muttered as he attacked chris, but chris blocked with his sword

"I don't know how to impress upon you that anything you do does not affect me in the long term" chris said, right before a blast interrupted him.

"the hell-"

and then he saw an enforcer

"should've known the limey couldn't finish you off, but I CAN" the enforcer began firing openly at chris, striking at his arms and torso

"AGH, FUCK" chris found himself flung across the ship he was fighting on, coughing blood on impact

"damnit....should've known XVII would've come...." chris groaned as he stepped to face off the enforcer, wings appearing as he sliced at the enforcer's rigging, actually damaging it

"...how...how did you do that?" the enforcer asked, their mouth not moving as they cocked their head

"high frequency blade bitch, electrical waves and vibration resonance allows me to destabilise molecular structures, I CAN hurt you XVII"

Chris then fired numerous lightning bolts at the enforcer, some at the admiral, before going full electric eyes as he relentlessly sliced through everyone he could, determined to end this, he didnt care about flesh or metal, he was showering the entire area in it.

but the enforcer was able to strike him down with a hyperdimensional strike that sent him several feet INTO the deck of a ship, he got up with some effort, and saw the enforcer ready to strike.

"you should've had your eagle with you, foolish of you to come alone" the enforcer said before an arrow struck it, causing a giant explosion that knocked it down.

Chris turned to the direction of the base and shouted

"THANKS HUN"

another arrow shot beside him, carrying a note

"You're welcome ♥"

Chris smiled as he saw grimm fly overhead, before he was attacked by the admiral, punched deeply in the gut

"Oh god damn it, why didn't I just kill you..." chris groaned

"A mistake I will not repeat" the admiral growled as he began to charge a shot, but then somebody else shot at him with a special gun.

Chris turned in shock to see......lockhart???

"Annabelle? I thought you were to hide!?"

"I couldn't leave ya out here alone, the royal navy has your back" she said as the royal navy ships showed up

Chris smiled, relieved a bit, but then he got an idea

"well, as a thanks, hold out your hand" chris said

"okay..." annabelle said, chris then cut a slit in her palm, before doing the same to his, and joining the cuts together, a weird energy emerged from him and into lockhart, both wounds sealing up after the fact.

"what the hell just happened?" lockhart said in confusion as chris cut open his wrist and let the blood drop in the water

he then gave an order

"all forces retreat, our target qwill be taken care of soon" chris said over radio.

everyone, a bit confused, skated away, except for lockhart and chris

"okay......." lockhart said in caution as the admiral got up

"the bloody hell is wrong with you?" the admiral shouted in confusion

the enforcer got up to ready an attack

Chris just smirked as the water around them began to bubble

"admiral, I hereby banish you to davy jones's locker" chris said with a suddenly booming voice as tentacles began emerging all around the ships of the admiral's cohorts

And then, right in front of the ship they were all on, a giant mechanical sea serpent rose from the water, and with barely any warning, rushed at the enforcer, gobbling it up as the admiral, chris, and lockhart looked on.

Chris smiled as the serpent gently let him get on top of it, along with lockhart, before the admiral could react, a tentacle snagged him.

"LET ME GO-WHAT- WHAT ARE YOU"

"It will answer you later" chris said with an evil grin as the serpent took him and lockhart away from the sudden consumption of all within the tentacles' reach,siren, cyborg, and ship, all dragged below the surface, straight down to davy jones's locker itself.

all lockhart could do was utter one phrase

"WHAT. THE. FUCK. WAS. THAT"

One serpentine ride to shore later.....

The serpent let its riders walk on shore, before its master showed up.

"Ägir, good to see you" chris said with a smile

"You should've just asked for my help from the beginning" the flustered supercruiser said

"Sweetheart come on you know me by now, oh and got ya something from the ship" he presented an amber necklace for her

Ägir blushed furiously "Y-YOU'RE NOT JOKING ABOUT THIS, YOU MUST BE- oh screw it" she sighed and lowered her head, letting chris put it on

"You're cute when you blush my goddess" chris said flirtatiously, making Ägir drink seawater in a flustered panic

".....are you two an item?" Lockhart asked

"not official but we're effectively bound together thanks to my summoning ritual, she's a nice woman and if there's anyone other than enty that I'd marry, it'd be the goddess of the sea herself"

"Y-you..." Ägir blushed still, but chris obviously had to answer another question

"By the way anne, I have a sort of pact with tempesta too"

"so THATS where the tentacles came from..." Lockhart said

"yeeeep" chris said with a smile "and thanks to my little blood share with you, you are now marked as a captain of theirs, figured since you and royal fortune are close...." chris smiled

"thank you...if I am to be retired, it'll be nice to be amongst them" annabelle said as they all walked back to base for a report.

XXXXVVVVXXXX

"So tempesta dealt with it, good call" charles said

"Yep, and I'm convinced the royal navy is not behind this"

"oh? you sure?"

"I did some digging, they claim loyalty to the order of the star" chris explained

"order of the star, thats not a royal navy chivalric order" lockhart said, drinking tea

"it isn't, its a defunct iris order, dates back to the hundred years war, but this doesn't mean this was some iris ploy" chris said

"yeah, enforcers, siren tech, iris is innocent of it" richelieu said

"and I sure as hell dont know anything about it" clemencau said

"and that leads me to my conclusion, this whole thing is an order dedicated to arbiter XVII" chris said.

everyone in the room paused

"And I have a sneaking suspicion that this is not new information" chris said, glaring at charles

Charles stared back, and raised a hand

"Everyone else out, I have to talk with the rear admiral in private" charles said

everyone walked out

"You knew this whole time the sirens were in deep with the royal navy, didn't you?"

"Affirmative, ever since I saw the order of the star banner during images of the battle that claimed the lives of so many kansen"

"......why didn't you tell me anything"

"I told no one, because the sirens were always watching....until you came in and fixed the security leaks"

"Is that why you forced the royal navy kansen to carry on...were you hoping the government would recall them?"

"yes, because a kansen can easily root out siren infiltration, I was hoping I could flush the sirens out of royal navy government indirectly....because if they knew that I knew, I would be...purified" charles said

Chris was stunned for a moment

".......so you basically caused the royal navy to leave azur lane, so they would flush the sirens out, because siren controlled governments are a major threat, without any way of leading it back to you, so if it succeeded or failed, you'd still kick siren ass?"

"yes"

Chris let this all sink in, crossed his arms, and let out one big hearty laugh

"Chuck, you shall be the last human on this earth I will allow to die"

Chapter Text

Chris walked to a special room in iron blood, he had just escaped an eagle-eyed archer who seemed irritable as heck, his audit for lack of a better word went well.

It had been a usual examination, and the auditor basically said "Good work", and approved him staying on base, much to the relief of everyone.

He had filed his statements for other audits, and he was due to meet with the new royal navy commander soon, lockhart was still retired from her role after re-trial, but she didn't lose rank, though that meant she was not a flag officer and thus had to be replaced, it worked out for her, and you'll see why soon.

But all that had to wait, he had gotten the blood samples needed for a special ritual, he saw the pentagram in the middle of the room, and got to work.

he lit the special cryptic candles, causing the room to glow red from the reddish flames.

"Blood unwillingly snatched from victims deserving" chris said as he poured the blood into the symbol on the floor, it traced the markings and made the symbol glow a little.

"three thousand scores of gold, half a score of wisdom" chris said before placing the gold and wisdom cubes in the now forming summoning circle

"triple million and six tenths of a fourth, computed into the wisdom" chris said as the combat data drives were absorbed into the wisdom cubes evenly.

"materials for four triple 203mm SKC cannons, refined from the prototype" chris dumped it all into the summoning circle.

"and lastly, ink from the fool willing to sign the contract" he said as he cut his wrist and let the blood pour into the summoning circle.

It started glowing with demonic energy, as chris began speaking in germanic tongues.

"Dämon der Lust, Kreuzer aus Höllenfeuer und Schwefel, ich bin Ihr Vertragsbinder und fordere Sie auf, die Bedingungen und Konditionen zu akzeptieren!"

The flames grew higher, the circle roared with the sounds of unholy torture, and the sound of hundreds of people dying in flame, as the room bore witness to a red tornado, before everything calmed down, and chris was face to face with the heavy cruiser demon he had willingly brought into this world.

"Are you the one who summoned me?" Hindenburg asked

"Yes, I am commander christian j wood, of eagle union, and I require your services" chris said without a hint of fear

Hindenburg stared at his body, he sure was a fine specimen, and she couldn't help but laugh

"what's so funny?"

"before you summoned me, I was tormenting souls in hell to relieve my boredom, one kept seething at the fact you, a supposed ubermensch, was dating untermensch instead of fellow ubermensch, or so he claimed" Hindenburg said

Chris connected two and two "PFFFFFT, SO YOU MEAN....HAHAHAHAHAAAAA" chris began losing it in laughter, eventually regaining his composure "oh man even HE wanted me to date bismarck? I'm not surprised but its still hilarious to hear"

"I suppose it would be, but let us begin, to sign the contract allows me to fulfill whatever desires you have, I shall grant you anything you seek, so, what shall it be contract binder?" Hindenburg asked, raising a hand that had a flame in it

Chris smiled, "demon, all I request is a heavy cruiser that can kill sirens, a soldier willing to defend those she cares about, and a woman of most curious origins"

Hindenburg tilted her head in confusion "thats....it? you dont seek wealth or fame or....power?"

"You ARE power, a lot of it, I have money, and I have a wonderful fiance and several gorgeous ladies ready to give themselves to me out of love and genuine affection, I don't need much more than that" chris said

Hindenburg stood there, utterly baffled, but sighed "I can give what you desire without a contract..."

"Then give me an upgrade to my aviation mech suit, give me the ability to upgrade into a lockheed SR-71 blackbird, an advanced long range strategic reconnaissance aircraft capable of speeds of mach 3 at an altitude of 85,000 feet."

"You....sure do know a lot about it" Hindenburg said

"DOES ANYONE IN HELL READ MY CHRISTMAS LISTS?" chris asked angrily

Hindenburg spun her tail and then did a demonic dance, before firing a demonic blast at chris, soon he felt himself surrounded by a feeling of power as his battle armor became refitted and reshaped, soon it looked like the blackbird itself, before going back to phantom mode

"You are now able to do long range reconnaissance at such parameters and even more, perhaps even mach 5" Hindenburg said

"Any catch?"

"Clever contract binder, and there is, I now require your soul~" Hindenburg said as she began getting closer.

she extended a hand out to chris, but then felt herself being blasted away

"DAMNT....was der hole?" Hindenburg said, baffled, as a shield formed around chris.

"Okay....you're VERY clever...." Hindenburg said

"Runic protection, summoned a sea god before you, you ain't getting my soul tonight" Chris said

"You will PAY for this deception!" Hindenburg said angrily

"Oh I still intend to sign the contract, don't worry" Chris said

"wat" Hindenburg asked, blank faced

"If I recall, succubi feed off the sexual energy of mortals am I right?" chris said, approaching hindenburg

"w-well yes" Hindenburg said, off guard by chris's casualness

"Well let me be real clear with you, I intend to feed you till your heart's content, and you'll find I can cook real good~" chris said, blowing into hindenburg's ear, making it all the clear what he intended to do

"O-okay if you were so keen on giving yourself to me...why the protection? Hindenburg asked, blushing

"Because my fiance would kill you"

"Well if you're so cocksure of yourself, if you let me feast, I can?" Hindenburg asked just to be clear

"That one of the terms, in exchange, every blood moon, your desires are mine to fulfill~" chris said

"you play a dangerous game contract binder" hindenburg said

"well, I do like games~" chris said

Hindenburg stared at him, and realising what she was working with, decided to oblige him.

"hehe, okay contract binder, here, pick a card, any card~" she said, putting several cards on her body, including one between her breasts

Chris immediately reached for the boob card, it was a V.

"Oooo~ looks like you've taken my v-card, naughty binder~" Hindenburg said

"so what do I win?" chris said with a smug grin

"This~" Hindenburg then pounced on him and started kissing him repeatedly

Chris tried to hug her but she pinned his arms to the floor with demonic binds

"Oh no no no, I'm in charge here~" Hindenburg said as she pulled his clothes off with demonic magic, letting her behold his entire glory.

"Ara, I see you like to live dangerously~" Hindenburg said, licking his scars, making him jolt in pleasure.

"Well, I AM a s-soldier after all" Chris got to moan out as Hindenburg wasted no time attacking his rod with her plump flesh pillows, swishing them back and forth to make chris squirm, which was working.

"NNNGH" was all he could get out as Hindenburg pinned him down

"Oh how boring, thats all it takes? shameful~" Hindenburg said

She was about to regret those words, as after a round of more teasing, chris wrestle out of the bindings and pinned hindenburg to the floor on her chest

"w-wha-" was all she could say before chris ripped her pants off

"You need to be punished you taunting force of evil~" chris smirked

Hindenburg felt herself heat up, her tail wiggling in anticipation, which was all chris needed for him to begin plowing hindenburg, making her scream out in pleasure

"A-AH AHHH, I'M SORRY CONTRACT BINDER, I DIDN'T MEAN TO BE SO TEASING, M-MERCY" she begged as she felt herself being pounded relentlessly.

"Too late for mercy, demons do not deserve any~" chris taunted as he continued pounding relentlessly

XXXVVVXXX

On the outside of the room, eugen and zeppelin were hearing unholy noises

"Is there an exorcism going on in there?" eugen asked

"F-FORGET FORGIVENESS CONTRACT BINDER, I AM READY TO SEAL THE CONTRACT~"

".........lord bismarck owes me big time for doing guard duty" zeppelin said

XXXXVVVXXXX

Back in the exorcism room, hindenburg was moaning like she was being exercised, she stuck her tail in chris's ass, hitting his g-spot

"AGH" chris felt a surge of pleasure that drove him to pound harder

neither of them could speak as they both achieved an absolutely massive climax, roaring in pleasure before collapsing on the floor in a heavy panting mess.

"t-the contract is signed" Hindenburg said, "a-and you are DEFINITELY doing that to me again"

"I-I love that tail of yours, think you could use that on enty?" chris asked

"who is e- ohhhhh, tell you what, we keep this arrangement, and I can make your married life all the better~"

"sounds like a fine deal to me" chris said with a chuckle

One trip later.....

Chris was standing in a room with Bismarck, Ägir, Hindenburg, schultz, and charles

"So this is the demon?" Charles asked

"Yes sir" Chris said

".....so you have a god and a demon on your side, AS WELL as an eldritch pact with I'm gonna guess that angel sao martinho?"

"we haven't sealed that pact so its generally tempesta for now" chris said

"ah, well....hope nobody's jealous"

"I'm not" Ägir said, "nice to see you again hindy"

"If I knew this was who you got protection from, I would've written a deal and sealed it with your blood alone" Hindenburg said

"so now that you have several supernatural contracts, are ya done making deals with higher powers?" charles asked

"yeah, with the exception of sao martinho, I'm done, no more, though odin and I may have a thunder pact" chris said

"I'll talk with her on that" bismarck said

"so is she going to be a problem? Schultz asked

"No, she's basically going to be in my sex dungeon basement most of the time anyway" chris said

"gut...after my audit I'm not willing to handle more stress"

"How did that go anyway?"

"I passed, though my superior wants me to choose a flagship post haste before I get promoted to Konteradmiral" Schultz said

"I feel like bismarck is mandatory?" chris said

"Nein, I'm the flagship of the entire navy" Bismarck said

"So I'll be taking on someone else, due to our current needs, I'm thinking of manfred von richtoffen when she's finished, seems to be unofficial policy for us to command from an aircraft carrier" schultz chuckled

"I know the british commander will go with an attack carrier, heard he demanded audacious be refitted to that" chris said

"maybe britannia SHOULD be the new faction name" charles pondered, "but anyway, soldier I wonder, you don't seem to be commanding tempesta"

"yeah, I retired from that due to overworking myself"

"and who is replacing you?"

XXXXVVVVXXXX

An angry royal navy officer barged into a room, "YOU"

"Funny thing about retiring, as soon as you do you're offered a new job position" Lockhart said, legs crossed on a chair and her arms crossed over her chest in smugness

"Where's the certificate of amnesty?"

"Oh that little document that exonerated the kansen under my command? I gave copies of that to the reporters at the trial, and the original is locked somewhere safe"

"You knew this was coming the whole time didn't you?" the officer asked Lockhart

Lockhart got up casually and looked at herself in the mirror

"Ah I didn't care much about the position, the kansen were following orders, they don't need to take the heat for my folly, and as for tempesta, eh they're fun ladies, a blood pact allowing me to be with them, a nice retirement benefit if I do say so myself, and chris made sure nobody back home would go after me, I'm out of your hair, and I'm happy to have served regardless" lockhart said as she got on her new uniform and walked out.

XXXXVVVVXXXX

"So about the other audits?" chris asked

"Dante got promoted, Asimov has been given similar treatment, Maximillian's audit was too posh for my taste, and satoshi...well...."

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"YOU ARE NOT BEING TAKEN FROM ME, AKAGI SWEARS IT" Akagi raged

"Orders are orders my love, I'm sorry, I cannot disobey them" Satoshi said, mournful but honorable, it didn't go well for him

"I WILL KILL THOSE INSECTS, KILLLLLLLL"

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"So I'm going to have to handle that?" Chris asked

"Amagi has it under control, so she says....I hope the replacement isn't such a troublemaker" Charles groaned

Chris groaned, "between this, the paperwork I had to saddle my secretaries with, and the reformation orders, AND the request for a NASA-Navy cooperation initiative HQ on base, I swear if one more thing happens today I am shooting the next person that acts out of line"

Cue enterprise walking in shouting angrily

"THOSE COURAGE LACKING SIREN-FUCKING KLANSMAN-DEFENDING NANKING RAPING BASTARDS"

"did she?" Bismarck asked in shock

"I'll get the gun" schultz said but chris waved at him to hold it

"what's going on enty?"

"The army brass is threatening to lobby for budget cuts unless we agree to not host a marine corps" enterprise said angrily

"THEY CANT DO THAT" Chris and Charles growled

"I KNOW, AND THE AIR FORCE IS BEING THREATENED WITH BEING FOLDED BACK INTO THE ARMY AS WELL, I JUST..I-CAN'T BELIEVE THESE PEOPLE-" enterprise then collapsed, fainting.

Chris immediately rushed to hold her, charles called vestal

It seems if it aint one thing, its another.....

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"Well how do ya like your new quarters?" Royal fortune asked lockhart as she viewed the quarters on the sailing ship.

"I love it, wonderfully fits my taste, thanks for this" lockhart said

"all the best for ya~" royal fortune said chipperly as lockhart got ready for bed

"oh my, the flower of dorset has quite a garden~" royal fortune said, biting her lip seeing lockhart strip down to her underwear

"well come get me, I'm waiting my first mate~" lockhart said as royal fortune practically jumped into bed with her as they began rubbing and kissing.

XXXXVVVVXXXX

With all of this, one group approached their boss

"Antiochus failed again, we're clear" Wichita META said

"Good, continue hiding in azur lane, and when you can, make contact with chris, its time we showed where the ashes will blow" their leader said, her eagle being petted.

Chapter Text

It was morning, the sun was out, the wind was gentle, and chris stood in full uniform with charles, dante, asimov, maximilian, and schultz, all fully uniformed as well.

They saw the audacious sail into view, flanked by two new battleships to be given wisdom cubes, chris recognised them instantly.

"They worked on them quick" chris said

"Hmmph, the republique will be twice as magnificent" maximillian huffed

"doubtful" asimov muttered under his breath

Audacious docked, and soon a ramp was let down, and out strutted a royal navy naval officer, flanked by vanguard and the kansen of the carrier he had arrived on, audacious

"Audacious, Vanguard, nice to see you've returned" Charles said, chris bowing to vanguard out of respect as a lower class knight.

"Rise admiral, we are equals in nobility" Vanguard said with a smile

"Huh, admiral? I thought charles here was the only one from eagle union" the officer said confused

"Oh, allow me to introduce myself," chris said

"I'm rear admiral christian j. wood, I am effectively head of the union here, I'm adjutant to vice admiral chuck here, and we answer only to the joint naval brass, you are the rear admiral I take it?" chris said

"That is correct admiral, and if I am correct, I am in the company of konteradmiral albrecht shultz, ammiraglio di divisione dante defalco, Контр-адмирал alexander asimov, and...... contre-amiral maximillian de la blanche...." he said the last part with a hiss

"nice to see you swine from across the channel" the iris posh prick said

"how's the surrender treating you?"

"how's the smell of siren oppression?"

Chris got between them "guys guys let's calm down"

"very well, one thing you should know right now, is that I expect HMS rodney to be modernised and converted into a modern battleship along with her sister nelson

"Okay but why?" chris asked

"Oh right, forgive my rudeness, I forgot to give proper introductions, I am commodore 1st class thomas clarence rodney, recently acclaimed duke of norfolk" Thomas said, posing regally

Chris spat out his tea that he didnt know he had "rodney, as in descendant of THAT one?"

"By jove you know of my ancestor? jolly good, then you should know why I want HMS rodney modernised"

"Yes, and I'll gladly do it, her ship looks atrocious as it stands" chris said

"I have to agree, I apologise for making such an immediate request, but I MUST get to work immediately lest my patrons assume I slack" thomas said.

"well let's not waste time, we have a jet expo to get to soon, and integrating you is the only thing that comes first" charles said

"Jolly good, for starters, I want to know who will be the flagship I can expect to see in coordination meetings" Thomas said

"Well we're still hammering that out, I still haven't gotten a flagship for when I have to go into battle" Charles said

"Probs gonna be hakuryu" Chris said

"yeah...." dante said

"well then, admiral chris, what flagship do you have?" Thomas asked, "last I heard it was enterprise"

"And it still is, but I'm having to take on a new ship for the third fleet, enterprise has put herself on reserve" chris explained

"enterprise? reserve? SINCE WHEN?" Charles asked in shock

"not going to explain right now....but I already know who will be my capital ship for the third fleet"

XXXXXVVVVVXXXXX

Hornet knocked on Enterprise's office door.

"Come in" enterprise said cheerfully

Hornet walked in

"What do you want to see me about sis?" Hornet asked

"There's been a change in plans, I'm not going to be capital ship of the third fleet" Enterprise said

"What? why? its YOUR fleet" Hornet said

"I have reasons, from now on, I want YOU to be the active capital ship for the third fleet"

Hornet was stunned "y-you mean it? THANK YOU SIS" Hornet hugged Enterprise, happy to get a chance to show her stuff

"You will need to finish becoming a nuclear supercarrier of course, but I expect that to be done soon, and I can't wait to see what my little sister can do" Enterprise said with a sisterly grin

"hehehe, I won't let you down, but I'm curious, why didn't you ask yorktown?"

"She and I are tired of being the famous ones, you've earned your time to shine, and we'll be cheering for you, so go out there and be a hero" Enterprise said encouraginly

"Hah, yorktown being tired of fame, she's STILL getting requests to be on PTSD awareness shows" Hornet said with a bitter smile

"Wow.....and they think I DONT have any?" Enterprise joked

"Probably only counts if you die" Hornet said

Both of them laughed to hide the pain.

"Well you're not gonna die any time soon, I won't let you, and York's still wanting to fight if she has to, she's a fighting lady, I'm a grim reaping archer" enterprise said

"dropping the grey ghost angle?" Hornet said

"you've been called that many times yourself, iowa too, we should start a club" Enterprise laughed

"I prefer being called the mail lady personally" Hornet chuckled

Enterprise smiled at that "well then go out there and sting like a hornet, I'll be back here raising a chick like an eagle" Enterprise said.

It normally takes 80 milliseconds for the human brain to process information.

It took hornet's brain 8 seconds, but when it all processed, she gasped

"Is it true?" she asked excitedly

Enterprise nodded

"OH MY GOD" Hornet glomped enterprise in a big ol' hug and jumped up and down "MY GLOOMY SISTER'S GONNA BE A GLOOMY MOTHER"

Enterprise's face went blank "hornet please, let me down"

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Chris was put in charge of touring the royal navy dorms with thomas, but since he knew a lot already, they were already talking about what plans he had.

"Alright first thing's first, they have their own monarchy which I would guess you knew already"

"Yes, who's the monarch?" thomas asked

"George V"

"Oh splendid, though I personally backed monarch for the position" thomas said

"George V has the charisma, monarch is more...quiet" chris said

"I've met them both, Monarch's a good lady, and I'm glad to see you've seemed to help them too sir chris" thomas said

"Thanks your dukeness, but please do not refer to me by that honorific, I prefer to keep my knighthood on the low key outside of the royal isles, lest my political enemies back home use it against me"

"I understand, though I may ask, will they accept audacious as my flagship?"

"Most certainly, we're refitting many of the vessels, using gear cubes, materials, the works" chris said as he pointed to an old battered up leaky battleship

"Warspite..." Thomas said

"Yeah, poor girl's had it way too rough, the bulins are doing the best they can but that ship may fall apart before we can overhaul it into the aviation battleship I propose" chris said

"I'll have to belay that order, no offense, I know where your heart is, but I have a different idea"

"Well let me hear it"

Thomas didn't let him hear it, he let him SEE it, by showing his blueprints for "Warspite II", and the design schematic was nothing short of devastating

"fuckin' hell man, are you serious?"

"As serious as tea time"

Chris couldn't argue, that's serious

"You'll have to ask her if thats okay though" chris said

"I think she'll agree" Thomas said, "besides, this design is much improved and far more longer lasting, and allows for integration of the CIWS system I've heard about from my predecessor"

"It will indeed, there's a lot of room, what else ya got?" Chris asked curiously

Thomas whipped out something he called the Knight class

"610mm torpedoes....more tubes....missiles-" chris paused

"I've been a fan of the k-class, when I saw the gato class I knew the eagle union navy had long surpassed even our river class submarines, you managed to do what the royal navy failed to do, so I took inspiration from several conceptual design and compiled together a new design, it will be able to be enhanced with whatever improvements you can provide, it will have sonar and radar capabilities specifically aimed at anti-submarine warfare, I call it, the knight class submarine destroyer" thomas said

Chris couldn't help but admire the audacious design, more tubes on the front and back, missile launching arrays, able to lead wolfpack-esque groups, and being able to outspeed nearly every submarine azur lane had, it was a marvel.

"I'll get it through chuck, I have to admit if it wasn't for one thing this would be the strongest submarine in our arsenal"

"And what is that?"

Chris pointed to the giant mechanical orca being checked on by repair ships, although it seems more like they were petting it

"what...is that..." Thomas asked

"just one of the ways the knight class can be improved upon" chris said with a slight smugness as the owner of the orca walked up to the commanders

"Hiya daddy" Nautilus said innocently

"d-daddy? did you-" thomas asked confused

"No I just adopted her" chris said picking up the submarine in his arms for a hug

".......you know what, audacious sees me like that, I am NOT one to criticise here"

Nautilus waved at thomas "hiya mister, I'm nautilus"

"Nautilus....like the submarine nautilus?" Thomas said

"Yep, mister orca's my new rigging"

"New rigging? its so much bigger than a gato or balao, and it looks...alive...what exactly did you do?" thomas asked chris

"She ate a nuclear arrow" chris said, "some resonance later and BOOM, nuclear submarine"

Thomas's face went pale "n-n-n-n-nuclear?"

Chris smiled "what can I say, I have that uranium fever"

Thomas let his shock and fear settle before his awe set in, that mechanical orca looked even more impressive now, it fired missiles into the air that attacked some targets, destroying them easily

"What in god's name have you been doing while we were arguing about whether or not to even stay..."

"The future commodore, been paving multiple roads to it, we have two more nuclear carriers being built, numerous other vessels being made, you'll find that our boss is a dick, but the results speak for themselves"

Thomas stared out as the constructed ships, seeing everyone working hard, yet finding time to laugh, talk, and even mess about.

"I had heard that this alliance and this base was in sad shape....what happened?"

"I happened, they claim I'm a miracle that fell out of the sky"

"I'll have to agree, but I have a question, if you did all this, why aren't YOU base commander?"

"Chuck didn't run this base to ruin, I haven't gotten the full story, but this base has been cursed long before he or I showed up..."

"That doesn't answer my question"

"He was able to keep azur lane alive before I even showed up"

"......thats a lot of respect innit"

"Yeah, he is to be respected for managing a shitty situation, and then managing 6 big egos while facing heat from his superiors"

"Now I get it, so why do you have seniority?"

"Because I have decades of experience from my time, it couldn't be ignored"

"Thats fair, I think I'll fit right in"

"as long as I'm invited to tea time"

"Alright, just make sure that if ya bring nautilus here, she knows proper manners ya filthy colonial"

All three of them laughed it up.

Meanwhile, wherever the fuck sirens are these days idk, the blockchain?

"XVII!!!!" an angry zero could be heard saying

Arbiter XVII, Star, walked up unperturbed

"Why did you send your order to azur lane!?"

"The kansen are being refitted, the commanders focused on audits, it was prime time to exterminate the anomaly" Star said

"You have any idea what you could've done? if they hadn't had years of resilience due to past commanders and tragedies, AND said anomaly, this attack would've broken the base at its most crucial juncture, and while the fact it didn't means the alliance is more secure, now the grey ghost and her sisters will be reaping our forces to protect them, I've already received reports of a submarine EATING tester" Zero groaned

"Luckily I have backups" Tester added from the box her consciousness was being stored in while her new body was being constructed

"Zero, its far worse than that, our anomaly has a blood pact with tempesta" Star said

the room got quiet

"he...WHAT?" hermit said in shock

"And you know what they're like, he is determined to fight without us, so determined that he made a blood deal with eldritch pirates, they loot our supplies constantly, under HIS direction"

"WHO LET HIM NEAR TEMPESTA IN THE FIRST PLACE" Tester's consciousness shouted

"Essex got drunk and summoned royal fortune according to our analysis" Observer said, "and star here is well aware of the control he has over them"

"Indeed I am, fellow arbiter sun tried exterminating tempesta, so she went for their leader, who was with the anomaly, Essex, and Enterprise, next thing she knows, her enforcers are annihilated by every tempesta ship that we know exists, he managed to call them all for a strike that reached sun herself, causing a solar eclipse without a moon"

Zero let this info sink in "and why wasn't I told this?"

"Because compiler was supposed to tell you, but she's been too busy reinforcing her mainframe and backups" observer said

"why?"

"because chris struck it with naval-variant B-21s and F-22 carrier-variants, annihilating the island with it courtesy of enterprise's nuclear arrow strike, he is not fucking around" Star said grimly

Observer felt herself sweat, the fact he was this aggressive and was actually one-upping them in the process, he wasn't just an anomaly, he was X-tier dangerous

"Okay, thats it, everyone, tell your forces to stand down and move strongholds, in fact, set some up well inland out of usual range of their aircraft" Zero ordered, she then turned as everyone rushed out.

"And will someone get me Code G"

Chapter Text

Chris and Charles are organising some papers

"Okay so you'll have enterprise sit out on the jet expo to let hornet have the lime light, you say simply resonating with a nuclear cube will allow her and yorktown to ascend?" Charles said trying to get clarity

"That is correct sir, reason I haven't done it yet is because I'm waiting for bradford to get back to me on the A2-Savages, I told him I don't approve of that design and apparently the contractors dont like me because of it" chris said

"And of course the army bullshit" Charles groaned

"I love the army, I really do, my uncle served in the army, but I refuse to support their reasoning for wanting the marines dissolved, in fact they should all become marines" chris said

"not a good idea, a good ground defense prevents deeper siren incursions, and if the X are truly as monstrous as you say, then we'll need them to prevent the apocalypse"

"fair point, thats why I'm considering landships and letting the USAF have access to the more robust A2-Savages, if they can patrol the land from an internal attack, we can protect the seas" chris smiled

"why not give yourself a land mode to fight with them?" charles asked

"really? you sure thats a good idea?" chris asked

"I mean think about it, you're our strongest soldier, even enterprise is weaker than you in some aspects"

"Please, don't diss her..."

"I'm not, though you rank stronger than any standard gold ship and can outpower a few priorities, and thus enterprise is by far our most powerful soldier, you have still seen more action than she has against forces far beyond what she's used to, you said that using only your CVN-80 and cybernetic skills, you were able to kill a leviathan, which from what I understand, is so strong even an arbiter cant kill them" charles said

"....thats correct" chris said

"then you have my reasoning, through skill and precision, you're stronger than any of us, if you had the power to transform on land, we'd be able to defend anywhere on the planet"

Chris thought on this before remembering a file he had needed to look at.

"whats that?" charles wondered as chris opened the file

"Transcript I made in runic of all the names listed in the NSA database, I put it in runic so it could be encrypted and unreadable when printed, lets see here-"

he paused a name, one of the names listed in the file made his eyes widen in shock "...it cant be..."

"what were you doing in the nsa database anyway?" charles asked

"I need to go, I need to make a call, I need to do so right now" chris said, rushing out of the room.

he ran to a secluded spot on base and made a call

"wilson? its me, rear admiral wood, look I'll be clear, one of the researchers-"

KABOOM

The noise disrupted the call signal, chris rushed outside and saw shimakaze running up to him

"whats wrong?" chris asked

"AKAGI'S GONE OFF THE DEEP END, SHE'S TRYING TO KILL EVERYONE IN SAKURA, FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE STOP HER" Shimakaze pleaded

Chris sighed, he sent a quick text to enty to not interfere, he and others can control her

Enterprise didn't believe this worth shit "agir, hindenburg, I trust you" she said

"We'll get jean bart too, we won't let our contract binder fall" Hindenburg said as she flew out, the german supercruiser following close behind

Enterprise sighed "I know.....I know"

Illinois walked up to her "are you jealous?"

"No, just wish he'd let me finally sink that bitch" Enterprise admitted

XXXXVVVVXXXX

Sakura was on fire at the moment, the dorms were panicking

"HEHEHEHE WHERE'S MY SATOSHI-KUN?" Akagi laughed maliciously as she began incinerating everything she came across

Shoukaku and Zuikaku had braved through the delerium of seeing akagi going full psycho, and were using their wind abilities to blow the flames away, containing them, awhile fighting akagi directly

"BAD SENPAI, BAD" Shoukaku shouted as her planes targeted akagi

"YOU DARE!?" Akagi destroyed the planes with her shurikens, her wolf spirit brutally attacking all that came close as akagi danced in the fires she was surrounding herself in

"This is bad sis" Zuikaku said as she sliced a fire blast aimed at her

"I know, this is worse than the marianas turkey shoot" Shoukaku said as a firey bite grabbed her leg and tossed her into a burning building, where she could see a blooded and knocked out amagi and a sniffling amagi-chan.

"auntie akagi is bad..." akagi-chan whimpered

"very bad, but we can make her good" shoukaku said as she got up to fight again, but akagi was on her tail, pouncing onto her, trying to burn her

"hehehehe, HAHAHAHAHAH, YOU THINK YOU CAN BE SAVED FROM AKAGI?" akagi asked the cowering amagi-chan, who summoned her rigging

"g-go away" amagi-chan said, her tears giving way for a salvo that sent akagi flying

"w-what the hell?" Shoukaku asked in shock

"b-bad auntie, BAD" Amagi-chan said, firing more shots

Shoukaku however moved to stop her, protecting her "no, don't, you've been marked as a target, damnit when this happened usually amagi or kaga would stop her, WHERE'S KAGA?"

"Kaga? you mean the traitor that-"

"Is right behind you?" Kaga called out before a blue flaming blasts struck akagi, knocking her down, soon most of the flames around the battle turned blue, before dissipating

"YOU, BITCH" Akagi growled, trying to attack but kaga was swifter, the shurikens hitting akagi in the torso, and her spirit beast mangling akagi's

Shoukaku was in awe, she had never seen them fight, and kaga was clearly winning already

"TRAITOROUS WENCH, AKAGI WILL DESTROY YOU" Akagi said before more planes hit her

Taihou showed up "that's wenches" she replied sarcastically

She turned to Kaga "thanks for the distraction senpai, I can handle her from here, if thats okay"

Kaga sighed "okay kid, show me what you got"

Taihou grinned and as akagi focused on her, explosive feathers emerged from around taihou and shot at akagi's planes with deadly accuracy, detonating them in bird-shaped explosions as some hit akagi's rigging, causing more bird-like explosions"

Akagi was in shock, taihou was never someone that could match her in combat, was she slipping? no, this was an illusion, one to rpevent her from reuniting with satoshi, IT MUST BE DESTROYED

But every bomb that made it past taihou's planes did little damage to her flight deck

"Why wont you DIE?"

"Armored flight deck bitch, its able to resist any HE bomb you throw at it, you can't hurt me with those pathetic bombs" Taihou smirked as she deployed her secret weapon, within seconds of taking off, this secret weapon had found akagi and unloaded incredibly powerful bombs that renderred akagi's flight deck nearly unusable

Shoukau and Kaga were stunned, what the hell was that...

Taihou took time to explain as one of the planes purred near her face, she took it out of the air and hugged it.

"Like 'em? they're the new rakurai bombers, superior to the tenrai, we developed their gear cubes using the english electric canberras as a base, they can intercept aircraft in midair too like the westland wyvern, although they're much faster and thus more deadly hehehehe~"

The rakurai snuggled up to taihou's bosom, tickling her

"strong as they are, akagi won't go down so easily" Kaga warned

Taihou nodded and as Akagi got up, she prepared to knock her out.

"Owari da, as the grey ghost says" Taihou mirked

"Owari da indeed, for you~" a dark voice called out

soon the air around them began to smell of death, wetness, misery

a glitchy tv-screen with no tv frame emerged from near akagi, soon trees and the souls of the tormented dead began emerging all around, the flames becoming pitch black before vanishing

"Hehehehehe, you fight well akagi, but you lack true conviction in your ways~" the voice said as a woman crawled out of the static, black fluid flooding the area around her, she crawled at first, her voluptuous frame only hampered by her creepy appearance, she crept out of the glitchy field and stood up, her hair parting unnaturally

Taihou looked on in horror, it was HER, but....messed up.

"Hehehehe, what's the matter me? scared?"

Akagi growled "another wench for me to smite"

"No, I'm here to help you" Metaihou said, "you want to find your shikikan? I understand that, I would do anything to find him myself, but these insects are in your way..." she glared at everyone

"They...they hurt akagi so much, they wont let akagi see shikikan" Akagi said with growing, focused, rage

"That isn't true!" Kaga shouted

"SHUT IT LIAR, AKAGI WILL NOT BE SWAYED BY YOUR LIES!" Akagi fired back at Kaga

Metaihou sighed and used her powers to summoned yokai and various oni to do battle, her power already crippling everyone, but before it could fully take hold, a massive electrical wave of lightning bolts struck her and akagi, zapping their riggins and disabling said riggings, the sensation making akagi go number, but somebody caught her

Akagi growled but then starting sniffing the air, tea and gunpowder.

"Akagi DONT LISTEN TO HER" Chris begged

"c-chris-san? w-why?" Akagi whined

"Because you're making a horrible mistake, satoshi did NOT go away because of them, he was discharged, they couldn't stop his superiors" chris said

"It doesn't matter how they were responsible, they were responsible, and thus they deserve to die, don't you see that?" Akagi asked, struggling against chris's hold with tears in her eyes

"They didn't want him to go either, and killing them will sever any chance you have at seeing satoshi again"

Akagi glared "chris-san, MOVE" she shove him out of the way.

"Excellent, go on, finish them off, I have disabled their ability to fight back, you can watch them die slowly~" Metaihou grinned

Akagi giggled more and more "hehehehe, hehehehehehe, HAHAHAHAHA" her body began shifting

"AKAGI NO, AMAGI WOULDN'T HAVE WANTED THIS" Kaga screeched, breaking free of the swampy bonds that held her and destroying several oni

"And what of amagi?" akagi wondered

"SHE IS YOUR SISTER, IS ONE HUMAN REALLY WORTH BECOMING A MASS MURDERER?"

"YOU DONT GET IT, IT IS MY DESTINY" akagi growled

"IT WAS AMAGI'S DESTINY TO BECOME A CARRIER BUT SHE DIDN'T ACCEPT IT, SHE HAD SELF RESPECT AND DIDN'T WANT TO BE A CARRIER" Kaga shouted

"w-what?"

"*sigh* she was always dying, but she didn't want to become a carrier even if it meant saving her life, so she asked me to give her an honorable end...." Kaga sighed

Akagi's face fell hard, and Kaga realised it, she fucked up.

"y-y-y-y-you KILLED AMAGI?" her rage ascended to new heights and her fury roared at her mind

In her mind, a hallway emerged

Akagi walked to it, in there was a note

"Hang in there child of the creator,  your very existence is a miracle born from the hopes and hearts of countless people, face the darkness, but don't let it consume you! Mama's cheering for you!"

"M-mama? I have no such thing" Akagi spat, she read the second note

"For those you love, and those who love you, don't give up!"

Akagi stared, but she just chuckled "hehehe, hehehehe, nobody loves me...I was never really loved, only by one, the only one the matters, I will kill for him hehehe"

ORIGINATION PROGRESS: 100.00%

A rusted flashed around akagi, and soon her consciousness was flooded by it, and her mind...broke


Outside her mind, everyone watched in horror as a black rusty explosion surrounded akagi.

The explosion enveloped everyone, given them all a distinct feeling of something bad happening.

And when the dust settled, no one was happy.

Standing before them was a rusted-aura kitsune, one that had completely abandoned themselves, and now stood fiercer, stronger, evil....


Akagi, was now, META

Chapter Text

Everyone steps back, horrified at what they see, akagi fully metamorphed

"A-akagi.....no" Chris said, trying to get up, the Meta corruption spiraling out in droves flooded through him and everyone, ripping at their bodies.

"DAMNIT....its gonna kill us" Kaga said, shoukaku and kaga trying to reach to chris

"Forget about me, I've endured worse" Chris said, showing this by getting out his HF sword, coughing furiously but holding on.

"Forget the worse, you're still in danger, GET AWAY" Kaga knocked chris away and fired shuriken after shuriken, but akagi shrugged it off and fired back with corruption blasts, going even more wild and contaminating everyone.

everyone, conscious or not, was feeling the effects.

Chris growled, he could launch a missile, but wouldn't stop the corruption.

"damnit...I'm sorry enty...I've been an idiot..." chris said

he felt himself beginning to faint, he had been exposed to meta corruption before, but this was ground zero of a metamorphasis, it was too much.

"What a shame, the famed slayer of sirens and kowtower of METAs, was all so weak" Metaihou taunted as Taihou fired off her bombers, they did damage surprisingly, but Metakagi destoryed the jets when they came to her

After this, Metakagi blasted taihou full of corruption and firey blasts, altering reality with Metaihou to prevent outside interference.

"So many samples, we can recruit the survivors hehehehe~"

Metakagi shrugged "if they learn their place, I'll let them live hehehehe, this new power feels great, but there's one insect I need to remove" Metakagi leered at Chirs, who, despite everything, was standing, and fired a slice of energy that sliced off some of Metakagi's rigging.

"Goodness you're persistent" Metakagi said as chris readied to stab.

But it was clear Metakagi was going to win, chris could feel dave the marxist returning in his head.

"I will die before I let you kill anyone" Chris growled, and as he did, his siren parts glowing from within, his eyes radiating yellow energy.

"I KNEW IT, YOU WERE TAINTED, KILL HIM AKAGI, KILL HIM, KILL HIM NOW!" Metaihou ordered

Metakagi nodded and readied her corrupted flames, but before she could strike, something jumped through the dimensional veil, a cutlass stabbed Metakagi in her shoulder before jumping back with it

"NOT MON AMOUR YOU BITCH" Jean bart roared as the corruption started being inhaled by a giant mechanical serpent and rain started pouring, dissolving the dimensional veil with every drop.

Metakagi: HOW MANY INSECTS ARE GOING TO BE IN MY WAY?

"Oh we're the only ones that matter" Hindenburg said, her demonic rigging growling at the corrupted fox spirit, "see you messed with my contract binder, and now we're going to FUCK you"

*beat*

"Well this just got interesting" Shoukaku said to Zuikaku who giggled

"Its fuck you up...hindenburg..." Jean bart said with an irritated facepalm

"No. it isn't" Hindenburg said as she got out her whip.

Metaihou slowly crept away in genuine fear as Hindenburg unleashed a salvo of gunfire shots that targeted her, soon she was grabbed by the neck with that whip before being thrown against the ground, destroying all her summons, Ägir's serpent growled, looking for other METAs, instead finding planes, attacking them, destroying them with magmatic breathes and plasma flames.

"GUH, what is this?" Metaihou said as she recovered from the sound

"We're decisive ships, I'm hindenburg, the serpent tamer over there is Ägir, Jean Bart is not one but she will kick your friend's ass for harming one she holds dear to her"

Ägir was laughing boastfully as Jean Bart opened up a brutal salvo that, combined with her tactical F-4 phantom launch, cleared Metakagi's planes from the area, her cutlass slicing her shurikens out of the sky.

Meanwhile Hindenburg was dealing with the Oni Metaihou was trying to summon to save herself, her rigging handling them easily.

The fight was now even, Kaga and Shoukaku organised an evacuation as the METAs were being contained.

Taihou was stunned "You can fly too?"

Jean Bart smirked "you're not the only one chris has influenced, speaking of, get him out of here, the sooner he gets out of here, the sooner Enterprise can treat the corruption" Jean Bart said

Taihou nodded and reached from him, but a surprised blast of swamp energy knocked her down, Metaihou had gotten up and was slicing at Hindenburg who was effortlessly holding her own, she flew up and punched her summoned planes and used demonic flames to counter the corruption leaking around.

Ägir in the meanwhile was keeping herself occupied by having her serpent wrestle the corrupted kitsune, being able to use its fusion breath and serpentine body to overcome the kitsune's ferocious attacks.

Metakagi attacked viciously, Jean Bart kept fighting on and parrying, but chris was now in even more danager, he tried to get up and help Taihou but more onis showed up with yokai supporters, swarming the field

"Ägir hurry up we need your runic powers down here STAT!"  Jean bart said, but then a strike fro Metakagi blasted her full of corruption.

"tch.....not like this..." Jean Bart groaned as she saw chris being manhandled, he was still fighting, but it was clear even Hindenburg wasn't enough, as she was being swarmed and blasted full of corruption.

"Damnit, I'm calling her" Jean Bart said, but realised communication was cut off

"Non!" she said before Metakagi jumped her and ripped into her chest

"DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE" she screamed in madness mantra.

Chris tried activating his siren powers but METAs were meant for siren destruction, and he wasn't able to do much.

Metaihou was giggling "shame you didn't have your grey ghost here, or bismarck, maybe this would've been a challenge" Metaihou said with a sigh

Ägir began chuckling

"whats so funny?"

"The fact you haven't realised we haven't even used our strongest battleship" Ägir said, and soon, cherry blossoms swarmed around, the growing cloud of corruption being pierced.

"WHO CHALLENGES US THIS TIME?" Metaihou groaned

"I DO" a battleship roared as she made her appearance known.

"WARRIOR'S BLOOMING TYPHOON" she exclaimed, a typhoon of pink winds and cherry blossoms surrounded the field, blowing away the corruption and destroying many of the summoned spirits

the battleship then took out her rigging, it was gigantic, a mechanical warrior one winged Tenin, wearing a shogun's helmet and armor, with 4 massive turrets on it

Chris immediately recognised who it was, "Satsuma"

the battleship stood in the typhoon of her own creation, forming a peaceful eye for everyone to see her.

"Lady Satsuma" Kaga and Taihou both bowed in respect

Metaihou and Metakagi both readied for battle, summoning both the latter's full corrupted kitsune, and the former's onis once again.

Hindenburg and Ägir respectfully backed down

Jean Bart knew from the look on satsuma's face that this battleship meant business, and her cherry blossom pink hair, fur, tails, and glowing eyes made this feeling stronger.

"hmmph, whatever, we can handle this welt" Metaihou sighed, but as she readied her rigging to launchher planes, Satsuma reacted quickly and fired a single salvo, two 510mm shells raced towards the both of them, and when they impacted, the explosion was freakishly violent,. covering everyone in a divine-feeling explosion cloud that could be heard across the entire base.

When the dust cleared, Metakagi was knocked out, her rigging utterly destroyed, Metaihou's rigging barely clinging on for dear life, herself barely standing.

Satsuma stared at them, reading her glowing pink katana.

Metaihou summoned a black pool of water and snuck into it with Metakagi.

Satsuma sighed and dissolved the cherry blossom typhoon along with her mech, Shinano, Ayanami, Shimakaze, and Nagato were the first to arrive.

"Satsuma did you really have to lock us out of our own dorms?" Nagato asked

"Forgive me Nagato-sama, but Yamato told me to go" Satsuma said

"I know but was the typhoon necessary?" Nagato asked

Satsuma pointed to the knocked out eagle union commander and several other injured, some conscious, bodies "Akagi was turned META by another Taihou, the corruption was rapidly spreading"

Nagato jolted back in horror, and seeing chris among the fainted, knew she was glad Satsuma had shown up.

"get everyone to vestal" Nagato said

XXXXVVVVXXXX

Vestal frowned upon seeing the state chris and amagi were in, they had been hit the worst.

"what happened?"

"Akagi...." Kaga said

Vestal frowned deeper.

"Enterprise isn't going to like this"

"Of course she won't, we let chris get hurt, bad, she will have all of our heads" Kaga said

".....that too" vestal admitted

Normally vestal would've shoved everyone out, but she knew they weren't going to want to leave until they knew he was okay

Vestalt came back with the results "he's incredibly contaminated, satsuma managed to purify a lot of the corruption from all of you, but he...isn't well, he took a ground zero blast....."

Everyone bowed their head in shame.

"It should've been me, not him" Kaga growled

"As if any of us could've stopped him, he really did believe akagi could've been saved...." Shoukaku said, "and I didn't...." she said more quietly.

Jean Bart held his hand "you stubborn bastard...."

the decisive german cruisers were both inconsoleable, but made the call they knew they had to make.

Within a minute, enterprise had rushed in to check the damage.

"Is everyone else alright?" Enterprise asked

"They're all contaminated, but thanks to Satsuma, nobody, not even chris, is going to die" Vestal said

Enterprise nodded and immediately loomed over an unconscious chris, who woke up.

"Oh great....an angel's here, I'm fucked..." chris chuckled weakly

"How are you feeling dear?" Enterprise asked worriedly

"Like shit, damnit all"

Enterprise sighed, "good, good" she then pulled him up by his shirt with both hands and looked him dead in the eyes "How the FUCK did you get corrupted? I have you surrounded constantly so you don't enter a depressive state again and thus don't risk corrupting, WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED?" Enterprise asked CALMLY

Chris sighed "Akagi......a META had influenced her....taihou META, she....convinced her.....and thus..." chris said, enterprise had let him go so he could explain, but he paused, before continuing "I'm sorry, I really did try to avoid it, I knew she was always one minute away from midnight, and I tried to turn the clock back"

Enterprise stepped back and sat down, in thought.

"So....Akagi finally went off the deep end?" Enterprise asked

Everyone nodded

Enterprise made a groan of being done with this shit.

"Great, I spent YEARS trying to see if the monster of pearl harbor ever left, AND SHE JUST DECIDES TO NEARLY KILL YOU?" she screamed before immediately calming down, vestal's sigh more than enough to assure her nobody was harmed.

Kaga and Shoukaku flinched at that.

Enterprise put a hand on chris's heart.

"And its because of this that it was delayed huh?" Enterprise said with a smile

Chris was about to react, when enterprise's hand resonated with him, and soon he felt a strong convulsion, he got up, reached for a bucket, and barfed into it.

He stared at the barf, META corruption, pure corruption.

Everyone stared at chris, and his vitals, they seemed to improve rapidly

Vestalt smiled "I forgot, Enterprise's nuclear wisdom cube repels META corruption, you radiate an anti-corruption field"

Enterprise looked at her hand in shock, she moved closer to the bucket and the corruption dissolved into nothing.

"Its true" Vestal said, taking notes

"I...I knew I could affect METAs, so I've been containing my field to prevent vestalt here from dying by just being near me" Enterprise said

"So that explains why I'm not feeling weak....hm...." Vestalt thought

"Hey uhh...can you touch us?" Kaga asked

Enterprise smiled and gave everyone a small love tap.

"OW" they all replied

"I don't blame you for failing to protect him, he was the one that faced Akagi like that, but I am VERY pissed at Akagi, and frankly...I'm happy she's META"

Kaga sighed "you...never forgave her for"

"Yes"

Kaga chuckled "well...I hope amagi can forgive you for that"

Amagi woke up on cue

"I...heard"

Everyone fell silent.

Amagi got up and walked to chris's bed

"I......I know what you did, you were very brave" she said, kneeling down to eye level

"And....I forgive you for failing to convince her, that META made it impossible..."

Chris frowned "but..."

"And I know enterprise-san....I know how much your hatred burns, and I can't blame you" Amagi said, getting up

"I knew Akagi was messed up, but she deliberately went for my kit first, I got injured protecting her....she wanted the perfect sister, I know it isn't entirely her fault but....now that she's META....." she paused

her face conflicted.

"I......would like it if there was some way she could atone for everything she's done....but if she's truly too far gone, please, end this nightmare.....and do what you must" Amagi said

Enterprise nodded "I understand"

Chris sighed before asking a question "so.....about the dorms..."

Kaga sighed "we'll have to create a floating dormitory fleet during repairs, composed of the biggest ships sakura has...."

Vestal and Vestalt nodded "we'll tell charles about this, the new sakura commander I suspect will have to bunk on one of the ships for awhile"

"indeed"

"guess we'll have a place to crash since we're not gonna be welcome in this nest" Shoukaku said sadly

"I didn't say you wouldn't be" Enterprise said

everyone paused

"Look, you did what you had to, I'm upset he got hurt, but he's okay and that's what matters, and besides, we have to lay some ground rules if you're gonna try to share his heart with me" she smiled

In the depths of META world......

"A new member of the balance of power?" a voice sneered

"we never did decide upon the name, we're all hommies anyway" another voice snickered

Metaihou rolled her eyes as she brought Metakagi into their base

"Richard....we have another soldier"

"Excellent, you have done well Tai, tell me, has that blonde bastard been killed?"

"Not sure, but he took a pretty bad amount of corruption"

"Good, he'll be out of commission for quite awhile, we'll be able to move more openly, hit the raj and africa, got a lot of kansen in the royal navy colonies that'll be wiling to swell our ranks, oh and try to find some vessels in the amazonia continent, we'll be quite enjoying bring them into our fold" Bon homme richard said with a grin of triumph

"But.....he's still alive...." Metaihou said

"The arbiters will get him don't worry, and I'm sure Zero's relieved that the terminator is off her back, now then, let's go to calcutta hehehehehe"

Somewhere in the atlantic....

Several META ships lined up in front of a massive aircraft carrier, and formed their ships in full size along with it.

"Forgive us boss, but chris...has been attacked"

".......not good.....how is he?"

"Our source in base has told us he is safe and his corruption was cured"

"Good...Vestal knows her medicine"

"Vestal....didn't do it"

"Come again?"

"Enterprise.....she was able to purify him with her nuclear cube"

Alterprise got up from her seat in surprise

"Do we know who contaminated him to begin with?"

"Taihou"

Alterprise scowled, before turning on a communicator

"Sis...are you there?"

"Right here sis, what ya got?"

"Get to azur lane, bring your device with you, meet chris, give him the device, and tell him to head to the big island, alone, the ashes will meet him there"

"Sounds fun, where are you going?"

".......I'm going to disneyland"

Chapter Text

Several days had passed, repairs were underway, and several ships were finishing completion.

A recovering chris and an excited enterprise were overseeing several projects with sir rodney and schultz

"Alright hornet, the nuclear cube is within your ship's engine room, resonate with it and you shall be good to go" chris said, "Yorktown, same with you, Saratoga, you will resonate with a type II data cube, you four destroyers, be careful, as your conversions will involve your augment modules"

Everyone nodded and went inside their riggings

"This is going to be a splendid day" Thomas said, Schultz agreeing

"I will need to oversee richtoffen's summoning soon, I assume you will need to oversee united states?" schultz asked chris

"yeah, you know the drill, 10 wisdom cubes combining into one big cube, you touch it, boom, everything is ready" chris said

both of them nodded

Charles was impressed, and soon everyone covered their eyes as several bright flashes blinded everyone.

Soon, the dock was empty except for them, the ships had vanished.

Chris sighed "knew this was to happen" he turned to his fellow commanders "enty recoiled into her cube too, we'll have to interact with them again, chauck, I guess you have ayanami"

Charles affirmed this and they all jumped down and called the cubes over to them with their hands

They touched the cubes, and all of them began morphing into their respective kansen.

Yorktown emerged first, her body not that much different, but her summoned rigging was titantic, a giant eagle surrounded by a halo of stars, yet radiating the presence of a fighting lady.

Yorktown pet the mechnical eagle "hello little eagle"

a very.....distinct name

Grimm flew up the rigging and greeted it, they squawked at each other like siblings.

Hornet was next, her body again not much different, the real difference was in her rigging, which was another massive eagle, but this one had the markings of the dolittle bombers, and a big "66" on its flight deck wings

Yorktown seemed to carry the 67

"hmmm.....looks like I'm the youngest now" she giggled

Hornet laughed, admiring the power coursing through her.

Enterprise walked up to them and grabbed their hands

"Try to contain your radiation field sisters, it could have effects on our fellow kansen" she advised

they both nodded, then watched the destroyers begin to morph.

all destroyers came out looking older, bigger, and more powerful, laffey was asleep holding a nuclear carrot

Chris chuckled "kid after my own heart, just born and already done with everyone's shit"

Ayanami noticed her rigging was in the shape of a demonic horse, it seemed friendly, she hugged it and it let her on top of it.

"I shall name you bako" Ayanami said, she didn't understand why it was such a thing but she didn't care, it seemed to like her.

Laffey's was in the shape of a jackalope, it stared at her, she offered it a carrot which it ate

"I shall name him Bart" she said, petting it

Niimi's rigging was a wyrm, it slithered up to her and licked her face

"You wanna be named Jormun?"

The wyrm licked her affectionately

"That's a ja" she said with a chuckle as she petted it

Javelin's was a lion, she climbed on top of it and stroked it's mechanical mane

"I...don't have an idea for what to name him" Javelin said

"I'd say Mufasa myself" chris chuckled

"Thats good" Javelin said, and the name was gonna stick

"what have I done" chris said, smiling bitterly

all destroyers then went to get accustomed to their new bodies and riggings, yorktown and hornet followed enterprise from some training

"That went well" Charles said relieved

everyone else nodded "But....I guess its time for us to awaken some ships" chris said

Kearsarge and Chkalov soon appeared

"Indeed, their cubes are waiting" they escorted the subcommanders to the awakening dock.

XXXXVVVVXXXX

Chris went first, he called out the first ship he was going to summon.

It morphed in the air and them started to glow brightly

Soon, a busty well curved woman emerged from the light, wearing a white classical toga that complimented her white hair lovingly, her red and blue eyes made her seem like a goddess on this earth.

Her rigging was in the shape of a giant eagle that had a torch on its heads spewing flames as it bretahed red, white, and blue smoke out of its mouth.

"L-lady liberty!?" Chris said in utter shock

"No just united states" United states said with a warm smile

Chris chuckled as the shock of what he had seen wore off

"well I'm rear admiral-"

"I know who you are servant of liberty, I shall be the patron saint of the entirely of eagle union, now please, escort me to my dorm, I must see what birds fly free" United states asked

Chris nodded, "I will, but first, I need to summon the others" chris said

"I will wait" United States said as she sat down patiently

Chris summoned another ship, this one carried with it a revolutionary war uniform when she finally emerged, with decent blonde hair

"I am Delaware, call me della if you wish, but I shall dare not make tea with those redcoats" delaware proclaimed

Chris sweat nervously "uhhh, you're a bit late general, they work WITH us now"

Delaware put on a poker face, "oh.....can I still dump tea in the harbor if they piss us off?"

"Hehe, I like tea but sure, if ya wanna give the fish fish food, why not?"

Delaware laughed before turning to see United States "SWEET LAND OF LIBERTY, IT'S LITERALLY LIBERTY HERSELF" she said

"No I'm just United States, but fret not general, I am your ally, not your master"

"T-thank you" Delaware said nervously, her planes and 2-gun turret finally forming.

"Aviation battleships are wonderful" Chris said as he went to the next ship, but to his surprise, she was already summoned

"Howdy, I'm BB-35 texas" The cowgirl said

Chris was taken aback "when did you get here?"

"About 2 sundowns ago, Georgia took me in, wanted me to surprise ya, glad to see I did"

Chris nodded "and why are you HERE?"

"To ask you to turn me into a super georgia" Texas said

Chris nodded "well that ain't too hard, just resonate with this model and you should convert in no time" chris said

"Alright let's start this rodeo" she said as she took the model of the super georgia and resonated with it, eventually her body grew a bit, she appeared more like herself in the prime of youth, and four MASSIVE turrets spawned around her, before attaching themselves to a winged horse.

"WELL WOULD YA LOOK AT THAT" Texas said, just as shocked as chris

"Oh my god..." chris said, sweating

Delaware and United States just looked on in amazement

"I found me a silver stallion, come on commander, let's ride" Texas said, hoisting chris up onto the horse with her, she ushered it onward

"WOOO RIDE LIKE A ONE EYED JACK OF DIAMONDS, WE GOT A DEVIL TO OUTRUN YEEEEHAWWWW" texas screamed as they both rode out of the summoning dock

The american energy of this scene was so high my cookie jar now has a brown football in it.

XXXXVVVVXXXX

Schultz summoned his ship, it wasn't that theatrical at first, but the dragon that came out was MASSIVE, and soon followed a woman dressed like a flying ace, wearing iron crosses with leaves, some golden, some diamond, and her red scarf matched her red dragon perfectly

"Manfred von Richtoffen, ready for duty!" she said with a salute

"At ease soldier, good to have you here, I suspect you'll be deployed rather soon, we'll slap some AP rocket aircraft onto you with some AP bombers and even some of those new missile jets, and we'll be good to go" Schultz said

"Can I kill dogs flying dog houses?"

"what?"

"nothing"

XXXXVVVVXXXX

Thomas breathed in and summoned his first knight class submarine.

the submarine was summoned quickly, glad in knightly armor, long flowing blonde hair with blue eyes, riding a rather fine looking shark-esque submarine, she bowed to thomas

"Sir Arthur reporting for duty" she said

"....when I said knight class I didn't expect THE knight....but very well, I am thomas rodney, duke of norfolk and baron rodney" he said

"I am yours to command my lord" arthur said, wielding her sword to the heavens "and by this sword, I shall smite all who stand in your way"

"Good show"

XXXXVVVVXXXX

All of them met up to explain what happened.

"so.....you summoned lady liberty....got texas back...and now general washington is here..." Charles said, "and you have a knight...and YOu brought the fucking red baron to life"

"That is correct" all of them said

Charles sighed "oh your factions are going to LOOOOOVE this"

Chris nodded as Enterprise walked in

"Hey darling I just- HOLY SHIT" she said, her mouth dropping in shock, she rushed to texas

"MAMA BIGHORN!" she said embracing texas in a big ol' hug

"Oh shoot you've gotten stronger, good to see ya again girl" Texas said, hugging enterprise back

Georgia, who was also in the room, let out a bemused chuckle "of course, you have a downright honest-to-god goddess here, and she zeros in on ol' mama bighorn"

Chris tried not to die of sweetness, but made his presence known.

"Oh right, uhhh" enterprise dropped texas down.

"I used to serve fine stakes to everyone, taught nevada everything she knows too, everyone started brandin' me with that name after awhile because of my wisdom and cookin', and I ain't gonna correct 'em now" Texas said with a laugh

"Where HAVE you been? azur lane never mentioned a texas" chris said in a respectful tone

"Retired long ago before there even was an azur lane, spent my days managing my old ship as a museum, now I'm here to teach the young blood a thing or two once again" Texas said, making enterprise drool at the thought of getting some damn good texas steak once again.

Enterprise shook her head and turned to the other two "delaware and united states...knew you'd be summoned, and forgive me but.....I didn't expect another goddess"

"ANOTHER?" United states asked in shock

"We have a couple angelic folk around here" Chris said

"Including him" enterprise said, making chris blush slightly

Texas shook her head with a smile "when I said ride a bull I DIDN'T MEAN THAT ONE"

everyone tried not to laugh at that at chris and enty's expense

Chris then focused on the red baron carrier "curse you..." he muttered, MvR heard that and chuckled.

he saw arthur and just chuckled "well, what can I say, nice work thomas" chris said

"thank you" thomas said

Charles called everyone to order

"Hate to interject now but we STILL need a plan for an offensive so we don't have our politicians thinking we're failing"

Chris nodded "I have a plan, and it involves our new carriers, we'll need the AP rocket jets, AP bomber jets, and whatever torpedo bombers we can get, our HE rocket jets are taken care of thanks to the F9F, and some are equipped with improved HVARs" chris said

Schultz and Thomas nodded

"I've produced enough AP jets to supply anything you request" schultz said

"and we have the improved glosters for naval service ready, now what is it you propose?"

Chris showed everyone his idea

The scale of it...this was a vast plan, it'd require.....no charles was determined

"You will have everything you need, I'll call to order everyone involved" charles said before everyone was dismissed

XXXXVVVVXXXX

Secretary Wilson soon disembarked from his plane, and was greeted by chris and enterprise.

"Rear Admiral Chris reporting"

"where's charles?" wilson asked

"we're currently organising something, due to the sakura dorm mess we're planning something big" chris said

Wilson nodded "well I hope it works, because if I'm not convinced you can respond effectively, we'll shut azur lane down"

Chris and Enterprise gritted their teeth while nodding.

"This way sir" Chris said, walking off with a strut

Wilson followed but chris scolded him "no, THIS way sir" he said, strutting again.

Wilson and Enterprise strutted along with him.

When they got inside, chris began a sitrep

"Sakura dorms are undergoing rapid repair, several kansen are off duty now as a result, only one ship is unaccounted for and that was the ship we lost" chris said

"Akagi I take it" wilson said

"Yes sir, I intend to find her and avenge this attack on us" chris said

Wilson sighed "admiral you can't be so aggressive, you'll need to donate a lot of forces for such strategy"

"Indeed" enterprise said "and with some of us not able to actively fight, his hands are a bit more tied"

"True, but thats where some things fall into place" chris said, they moved westward down a new hall.

"As you know I'm both commander of eagle union and the aviation commander for azur lane in general, I hope people have fond things to say about that"

"They still think you can't seriously keep even half an ocean save from the sirens, but they respect your hustle and record, so they're not calling for your dismissal"

chris chuckled "they don't know how large azur lane really is"

enterprise nodded "eagle union alone has at least 10 fleet carriers on duty at any given moment, this gives chris here the power to organise around them"

"I'm sure he can, but the fact is with this attack, sakura is looking to pull out, and eagle union is after charles's head, especially since we have reports of META attacks across the pacific alongside siren attacks, even reports of engagements between the two, so tell me, what can you possibly do to solve that?" wilson asked

Chris remained steadfast, and spoke bluntly yet precisely

"I am going to patrol the pacific with the goal of total air supremacy over every single cubic inch of pacific water" chris said

Wilson froze "REAR ADMIRAL, that is an INSANE idea"

"We have been developing more carriers, several light carriers, fleet submarines, new destroyers, escort battleships, cruisers, even aviation battleships, we need these ships to not only attack sirens but ferry our marines everywhere they need" chris said

"and we've been training them sure, in fact it is my understanding the marines are here already" wilson said

"yes, they will make fine soldiers against the growing siren cyborg menace, and if some things are to be believed, METAhumans" chris said solemnly

"I agree this has to be stopped, but we barely have the manpower as is, so we don't have the manpower advantage" wilson said

"but we DO have the kansen advantage"

"Even if so, to secure air supremacy over the entire pacific consistently against such powerful enemies would require-"

"Over a hundred carriers, with thousands of planes, and dozens of escort ships" chris said

"Rear admiral, there is no such force" Wilson said

Chris smiled and walked ahead out to a balcony, and to Wilson's shock, over a hundred kansen were standing there, 70 fleet carriers, 40 light carriers, around 7 supercarriers, all ready for orders

Alongside them were around a hundred destroyers, including four destroyer leaders, dozens of cruisers, countless submarines, and around 30 battleships and battlecruisers

"A new power is rising, its victory is at hand, the pacific seafloor shall soon be littered with the husks of the machinations of antiochus, march across the pacific, leave no siren alive, TO WAR!" Chris proclaimed.

With this proclamation, the assembled kansen turned, and marched out into the ocean to disperse across the pacific as wilson watched in awe as rigging after rigging was summoned.

Chris turned to wilson

"There's your force wilson"

Enterprise couldn't help but feel pride in her fiance as he left the secretary speechless, even fearful.

They walked together, leaving wilson to his thoughts.

"So.....hornet will be your active flagship, the marines will enjoy her vessel I bet" Enterprise said

"You can join her if you want, I'm not making you stay here"

Enterprise grinned "bringing a pregnant archer into a battlefield?"

"I'm bringing a pregnant grim reaper along with me for safekeeping" chris smiled back

they shared a kiss as outside, the drums of war beat as the kansen armada marched out, for one thing was always certain.

There shall never be a dawn for antiochus

Chapter Text

It had been a few days since the order was carried out, charles had personally left on hakuryu to oversee the massive operation, leaving the subcommanders to manage the base.

And of course, this meant the guy in charge was our blonde idiot, his secretaries were trying their best to keep up but even they knew it was a fool's errand.

Bismarck and Enterprise had been working hard to help in particular, schultz working overtime, sir rodney doing his utmost, even maximilian was pitching in, asimov and dante trying their best to keep everyone's spirits up, and every sakuran was trying to help amagi through her grief.


"All we have to do is keep things going, we can't slow down, YET I'M CONSTANTLY BADGERED" Chris groaned as he punched ajax out a window.

"why was she even here?" Bismarck asked but got no reply

"Okay so the full marine forces are going to be here today, and from reports, we have an attempted siren assault on the outer islands, ni'ihau in particular hasn't responded, so it looks like they'll be getting their first taste of siren battle soon" enterprise said going over the notes

"I'll take illinois out and lead them myself, they'll know the moment we come close so we'll have to do this both directly and from a distance" chris said

he got out a map of the islands, and placed several fleet tokens, before buzzing all the other commanders in

once they and their flagships got settled in, chris laid out the situation

"we have indications of an advanced siren attack force marching on the western islands, if they fall they can launch air raids against us, we can't let that happen"

"how did they get so close without being detected anyway?" thomas asked

"we've all been distracted, I suspect one dropped a mirror sea close by, but I'm still puzzled myself, point is, while I intend to lead this force, we need a coordinated carrier attack force from right here on base" chris said, organising a few carrier tokens into a half-circle focused on the west side

"any carriers still here, if able, will be deployed for long range strikes"

everyone nodded

he then got together tokens for the attack force

"due to the distance between islands and the relative speed of jets, I will not be needing any carriers in the attack force, and with nautilus still in the area I can safely say the submarine front is covered, though some knight class submarines will be going with her I take it?"

thomas nodded "I've been able to get 7 of them made thanks to lady enterprise's nuclear properties"

"I've been experimenting with my atomic molecular manipulation abilities, thanks to this I can turn a torpedo into a submarine which, when bonded to a cube, can become a full submarine" enterprise explained, "though hornet took to it VERY well"

XXXXVVVVXXXX

"YOU SICK DEMENTED FREAK" impero said as hornet chased her with a pineapple pizza bomber

XXXXVVVVXXXX

Chris nodded "aight, well for surface fleets, I'll have niimi come along if thats okay" chris asked bismarck and schultz

"I'll let roon and hindenburg tag along too" Bismarck said, which schultz signed off on

"What would you want from me?" Maximillian asked

"brest and saint louis will do" chris said matter of factly

"I volunteer kiev and kirov" asimov said

chris smiled "I'm sure kiev will like that"

Dante then spoke "if its not too much trouble, while I can send a few ships of my own, I'd like to ask if we could use these newly opened up docks for a massive refit of some of our old ships"

"Oh?"

"yeah, having new ships is nice and all but we could stand to just refit and enhance our old fleets to work better, for example I'm thinking of refitting roma's rigging to include stronger secondary guns, and have enough room for a 3x4 406mm armament"

Chris nodded "I see"

"And not all, I'm thinking of refitting veneto and littorio into marco polo class designs, all of which will also have super heavy shell capabilities"

"this I'm okay with"

"good, in fact I recommend this being our general plan going forward, I know this wasn't the best time but with everything going on we could stand to be less ambitious for a bit and more practical"

Asimov and schultz nodded in agreement.

Chris sighed "okay, if we're doing that" he then phoned kearsarge

"this is your go ahead, get your rigging out and we'll work on it"

he then hung up

everyone stared at him

"kearsarge's rigging is a conceptual mess, that flight deck in the middle leaves nothing to defend, and she cant use her full battery effectively, so I've come up with a refit project, which will extend her hull a bit but also make her flight deck tougher, and shift it to the back, which some of the open space allowing for a superstructure and, most importantly, a missile launching array, her guns will be replaced with MK 7 turrets, though she will only carry two, it'll be better than what she had before"

everyone nodded

"Once we take care of this bothersome attack on the islands, we can get back to refitting-" chris was interrupted by a news blinker

chris sighed and opened up the channel tv.

BREAKING NEWS

"This just in, we have received word from the representatives of the Global Union, Spokesman Jackson Rush has an announcement" the reporter said

The feed them cut to mr. rush himself

"Citizens of all nations, I have come to announce that as of 9:00 AM CST yesterday, two factions have officially ratified their charter, the federation, and the revolutionary front, these alliances, one head by the eagle union, and the other by the northern union, have been formed with the intention of spreading their influences across the globe, in proof that their way is the best hope for humanity's survival, and as such, they declare their intention to support their ideology globally with ships, tanks, planes, WMDs, and so forth, the leader of the federation, James l. Tiberius, has declared that his alliance will begin developing sattelites and space vessels to dominate the grand final frontier, and spread the federation ideal across the stars themselves, the leader of the revolutionary front, Nikita Krusilov, has declared his alliance's intention to prove the benefits of the revolution, and will not bow down to capitalist dogma, his alliance will make better rockets and in more numbers"

"The premier of the northern union has also said that azur lane, the global alliance against the sirens, will be recognised as a fascist organisation if it does not relieve itself of all eagle union attachments, requiring a move to vladivostok as a result, the president of eagle union is expected to respond, and we will be interviewing the commanders of azur lane for their opinions soon" the reporter finished

End report

Everyone was silent, for some time.

The silence gave way to anger.

"They cant do this......" Dante said

"They will have to fight me if they want me to leave" Asimov stated sternly

"I'll toss their bodies like salad" Maximillian said

"I'll send them into the thames" Thomas said

the flagships had been silent, this was a political issue of which they knew little, except for soyuz and enterprise, who stared at each other with some sadness

"commander, we're not gonna listen to them" sovetsky soyuz tried to assure.

"dear, please say SOMETHING" Enterprise said

"commandante..." vittorio veneto said

Chris deeply inhaled, before exhaling a breath so powerful it blew the hair of the people in front of him.

"Change of plans, I'm taking the destroyer leaders, illinois, and thats it" chris said.

"what about-"

"forget it, illinois is a trusted command ship for me, and the others can move out of the way if I need to battle myself, and trust me, I intend to battle"

"okay...but we want to watch" thomas said

"fine...just stay out of harm's way, I won't be merciful"

A few inches later.....

The siren attack force was lead by tester, who was itching for a fight, it consisted of endless pawns, a few rooks, and 4 mark IV strategists

but not just that, she had new rigging, improved rigging, and she had a platoon of siren soldiers, 1,000 of them, 100 of them riding mechanical demonic horses.

"whats the plan boss?" the horse master asked

"when the fleet comes, you charge the command ship, leave their commander for me" tester said

"alright then, don't know why you didn't call in 100 queens..."

"because thats not the point of this mission....sadly" tester growled

XXXXVVVVXXXX

Recon flights revealed the siren cavalry waiting on a big island

"Apocalypse riders...." chris said with a frown

"well now what?" Illinois asked

"they're able to destroy bigger ships with a single cavalry charge across the water, if you engage them in kansen mode, you'll be overrun" chris said, thinking

"so why not use airstrikes" illinois asked

"Oh we'll definitely do so, its just they'll have air support too......shit" chris groaned

Enterprise smiled "I can fight you know"

Chris nodded "but you wont fight by yourself.... there IS another way to stop their charge, but its risky" chris said

"and what's that?" javelin asked

Chris pointed to Nautilus.

"Me? dad...how can I stop them?"

"sweetie" chris said, picking her up to look at her in the eyes "you're a nuclear attack submarine, you can launch the most powerful torpedoes imaginable, you have missiles, you can dive deeper and faster than anything they have, and you're close to completely undetectable under the water, you can show them what's for with minimal casualties"

Nautilus nodded and smiled "okay, let's fight some sirens now" she said with purity unmatchable.

Enterprise smiled "so, just a suggestion, how about chris gets to travel inside mister orca?"

Nautilus nodded happily at the idea

Chris was a bit perplexed but nodded

"So...air cover flying from base, missiles and torpedoes for surface combat, and an attack from below, where do you come in dad?" illinois asked

chris chuckled "I'll be in the thick part of the combat" he said before dusting off his uniform patch, VFA-101

"what kind of patch is that?" enterprise asked

"for the VFA-101 squadron, the second grim reapers" chris said

enterprise smirked "live up to the name dear"

XXXXVVVVXXXX

Everyone was ready, the jets all flew off with enterprise's F9F-6 super phantoms leading the charge.

The strategists felt the jets getting closer and summoned their planes en masse

"Holy shit thats a lot of planes" the horse master said

"yeah, we can summon 100 of them per strategist, that should be enough to-"

Tester stopped talking upon noticing just HOW many jets were coming, 600 of them.

"W-WHAT THE HELL" she exclaimed as the strategists ran interception formation, but the 262's and F9F's fired rocket after rocket, the super phantoms launching more of them, and with no concern about which siren jet got exploded

The siren cavalry watched the dogfighting above, it was MASSIVE, countless planes raced and curved across the sky for air superiority as the AA of the mass produced models below tried to contribute.

Chris, down below with nautilus, was not pleased with the cavalry's presence.

"Even if the destroyers and illinois face them, this force...." chris sighed

"What even is this apocalypse cavalry?" nautilus asked

"They're the mechanised cavaliers that will defend time and space from a force far above antiochus, or so they say, they leveled the gerald ford and the kennedy without a single sweat broken, they wiped out the uttar pradesh clean of people....I don't like this at all"

Nautilus looked scared

Chris hugged her "don't worry, my timeline was awful, but there's one thing this timeline has that mine didn't" he said before an alert distracted him

It was the mass produced sirens, they were swarming.

"LEADERS, ILLINOIS, ENGAGE" chris ordered over the radio.

"LETS GO DESTROYERS" Illinois said, racing across the water with them.

The destroyers formed a diamond around illinois, ayanami in the front, laffey and niimi to the side, and javelin in the rear.

Chris watched from a fargo drone that was following them, and also allowed him to give orders.

"alright, the cavalry will still be an issue, so I have an idea, get to just beyond their detection range, our planes in the sky will play spotter for you, have your riggings out and fire guided missiles from them, illinois, bring out the shotgun" he said with a smile.

Illinois chuckled and summoned her rigging, the massive flame-scalped mech roared to life at the designated destination.

Niimi's added tracking features allowed for easy detection of the siren positions, and on her mark, the missiles flew.

They glided across the water, and Tester soon saw them coming

"HE BROUGHT OUT THE DDGS" Tester growled as she moved to avoid.

The mass produced models however could not, and soon 20 of them were nothing but flames and shrapnel.

"20 direct hits" Tester growled.

"CAVALRY, TO THE ISLAND, ACTIVATE THE GUIDED MISSILE PAWNS" tester demanded

the cavalry charged back to the island and soon several officers were activating the guided missile pawn factories.

"Didn't think I'd have to use them so soon, damnit all, you're clever anti-siren"

Chris smiled as he looked at the battleship game table he made, putting down 20 hit tabs, somehow it was a perfect replica of the formations.

"now its time for ill-" chris stopped upon seeing the guided missile pawns come on screen

"..........they're bringing THOSE out.....goooooood"

chris saw illinois prepare her shot, and she fired.

The massive salvo shot hit the guided missile pawns, destroying them with ease.

"dad what the hell did you make her for?"

"siren destruction, guided missile siren destruction" chris said as Illinois felt her power rise

"They have guided missile models out-" Illinois said before her mech began changing, shoulder mounted gatling guns soon emerged, and the eyes soon started shining with laser vision that scanned the ocean

"Dad did you put a machine gun CIWS in my rigging?"

"yes indeed I did, use it well"

"I will dad, thanks" illinois said eagerly as she fired her machine guns at some incoming missiles

the fact they were able to react so fast and with such precision, it even synced with the destroyer combat systems, allowing their automated secondaries to counter incoming strikes

"Holy land of liberty, girls we got this" illinois said before she saw tester rush up to her.

"ILLINOIS, I SHOULD'VE GUESSED YOU'D BE HERE"

"Well if it aint tester, go ahead, approach me, so I can kick your pansy ass back to where you came from" she said, cracking her knuckles

"oh my zero she sounds like her FATHER" tester said in mild horror, but she fired all her salvos, illinois returned in kind, perfect block.

the destroyer leaders vanished from around illinois.

"Activate the aegis integration" Niimi said softly as all of them soon got combat armor put on them and their normal skater boots became pumpjets, propelling them faster

The aegis integration made them see in infared, hydroacoustics, EHF radiowaves, and even plain laser vision, they saw targets mocked on grids, and when they selected a target, the missiles roared off in search of that target

"Laffey kill" Laffey said

Ayanami zipped forward silently under the cover of smoke, javelin fired her well, javelin, like a missile, and its destructive impact sent the cavalry into disarray on the coast

"Good work jav, but now, ayanami, lead the killshot" chris said ecnouragingly

All 4 destroyer leaders coordinated a line assault, before they slowed with with their riggings, turn around in circles, and fired a full load of torpedoes from all sides

20 from niimi, javelin, and laffey each, 24 from ayanami herself.

84 torpedoes raced across the water as the cavalry charged

Their horses sensed the torpedoes and moved away, but not all of the cavalry made it
*KWABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM*

The massive eruptive series of continuous explosions blew up cavalier and siren alike, more shrapnel and blood flew in the air as guided missile bishops and knights were being deployed before they too got caught up in the calamity.

Tester watched in horror as the explosion cloud's winds and gasses raced past her.

"My attack force....YOU WILL PAY FOR THAT" Tester growled as she fought Illinois, who's mech was clearly shrugging off most blows.

But Tester was done fooling around, and she activated her own guided missiles, which raced and damaged the mech severely, causing gatling bullets to slice through the air and it aiming all 4 turrets at tester before firing with rage

Tester was blasted hard, but she snickered "that the best you got?"

Illinois was calm, even as shapes started forming on the horizon, she kept up her assault, her mech firing corn stalks like rockets that exploded in midair into tiny frag shells that ripped at tester's body.

The fragmentation also being flown into the dogfights above as both aviation forces wrestled again and again for control of the skies.

Illinois's power was not to be taken for granted, as Mark IV breakers showed up to reinforce, she fired salvo after salvo, shot after shot, and did her own spin on things when she crouched back and pulled her hands to her midsection while bending forward in a firm stance

"Hey tester, did ya ever watch anime?"

"I GOT FUCKING TENTACLES YOU BLIND BITCH" tester screamed

"Oh then maybe you'll remember this classic" illinois said as she cupped her hands to her side, and concentrated energy.

"Kaaaaaa......meeeeee......."

Tester froze up "no...you can't be serious.....HE IS NOT THAT FUCKING CRINGE"

"Haaaaaaa.....MEEEEEEE"

Tester saw the energy build up

"Oh you have GOT to be FUCKING with me"

"HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" Illinois shouted, releasing the energy beam in the form of purple flame colored light, concentrating such power in the blast that it flew through tester's side rigging, burning a massive hole, through several sirens, splitting the water as it passed, and struck the island, detonating a good chunk of beach.

Tester growled in pain as Illinois got up and struck a pose.

Chris shed tears of fatherly pride "thats my illinois *sniff*"

The siren soldiers were alarmed.

Especially since Illinois looked like she wasn't done.

But unfortunately, neither was tester.

"GRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" with a roar she pulled battlefield wreckag from behind her and regenerated her rigging, going all out furious as the destroyer leaders doubled back to help illinois.

"NOPE, FUCK THIS, YOU'RE DONE" Tester snapped and summoned a mirror sea full of guns and missiles aimed at them, going full war machine

Illinois ducked for cover and fired her CIWS along with the DL's

"Man she's PISSED" Illinois said as her mech tried to fire back

"DIE, DIE, DIE, DIE, FUCK IT I DON'T CARE ANYMORE JUST DIE" Tester roared with rage as she fired her cannons, blasting everywhere and everything.

Illinois was calm externally, but tester's attack was causing the destroyer riggings to crack.

"Damnit...dad, we need help, we're stuck in some kind of...oh who am I kidding mirror seas-"

"don't work on your dear old dad, who is coming for you as we speak" chris replied over radio

Illinois smiled and fired a concentrated cornstalk blast that stopped tester for a bit.

"Okay fine Tester, you want us to die, go ahead, and make it snappy"

Tester froze a little but dropped her guns in confusion "....whatever game you're playing it wont work" she said.

"You can't beat me"

"Oh I know" Illinois said, "but they can"

she pointed outwards, the mass produced siren models that were in the mirror sea that tester was destroying in her wrathful rampage were soon swallowed by a giant mechanical orca

"NO" she said in anger as the orca launched stronger missiles that shot her rigging to bits, the mirror sea cracking around them while tester regenerated her rigging.

She fired at the orca but it didn't seem too bothered by it

"Mister orca fears NOTHING" Nautilus said proudly from near mister orca's fin.

"Nautilus!?" Tester said surprised

"Oh yeah, its me, I look better, and its all thanks to daddy" Nautilus said

"daddy?"

Tester's confusion soon turned to even paler skin as she was kicked in the fucking jaw by a....MECH FOOT?

Tester reeled to see who challenged her, and saw someone in jet-esque battle armor

"Surprise motherfucker" Chris said.

Tester backed up a little, the cavalry commander looked at chris in shock

"Illinois, Nemo, I got this" chris said

Nautilus didn't protest, but did speak up "can I still watch?"

"sure, just make sure everyone's inside mister orca" chris said with a smile

Nautilus scooted everyone in against their will but whatevs.

Chris then turned back to Tester

"You really just want to test my patience don't you?"

"Nice suit"

"At least I can wear it in the winter time you pale whore of a machine" Chris jabbed

"I'm stronger since last we met, you're still no kan-"

Chris jet punched her in her gut.

"but I AM impatient" chris said as he proceeded to punch the siren cavalier's mech horse, punching its head off

The planes above noticed chris.

"Is that...your fiance?" Pennsylvania said shocked

"Get ready ladies, we're in for a treat" Enterprise said as she saw chris ready another jet punch.

Tester got back up and fired her AA weapons, but chris came out of it unscathed

"Oh you really came prepared" Tester growled as she readied her missiles

Chris reacted quick and soon, sidewinders appeared  and rocketed towards tester's missiles, destroying them

"right....f-4...." Tester groaned

Chris fired off more sidewinders, destroying several aircraft and heavily crippling the remains of the siren cavalry force.

He continued his assault on tester soon after with a kick to her rigging, before proceeding to uppercut kick her away as he jetted across the water in pursuit.

more sidewinders were launched, providing a decent screen as Guided Missile pawns and bishops fired their arsenals at him, allowing him to fly up high, too fast to be tracked, too high to be easily reached.

"Oh I have waited YEARS for this" Chris said as he flew idly.

"Chris, its imperative that you find the strategists" enterprise said over radio

"understood" chris said as he flew around to track them.

he managed to identify them and readied his tracing laser sights

the strategists prepared an interception force but chris was faster, after he deployed some sparrows to home in on the speedier craft, and sidewinders for closer craft, he dropped his GBU-12 bombs, detonating the strategists.

"Target destroyed, heading back to tester, papa reaper out" chris said jokingly over the radio.

He then felt a salvo race by followed by siren cyborg soldiers shooting at him, he had flown close to land and his joke had slowed him down.

Chris went back to mech mode.

"Alright then..."

He summoned even MORE sidewinders, this time at tester, causing explosions that blocked her from getting closer.

"Its over, we have you outnumbered, and outgunned" one cyborg soldier said

"No....it ain't over until I say its over, I have the power of god and anime on side, illinois was the anime, and here's the god, the roman god of the forge"

Chris's right arm shifted, and out came an M61A1minigun

"VULCAN. LIVES." chris said before letting lose.

"WRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY" Chris shouted as he mowed down soldier after soldier.

Tester backed away slowly, genuinely frightened as even the cavalry got mowed down.

"Oh where do you think YOU'RE going?" chris said has he noticed, he stopped firing his gun.

"Y-you're not some mere siren hybrid, you....you're a god damn terminator...." Tester said, half fear, half respect

Chris chuckled "Guess I am, hasta la vista, tester" chris said as he fired a sparrow at the fleeing tester, blowing her body to bits.

Chris floated above the water, letting the air return to him.

An F9F flew up to him, hovering.

"I'm okay" he said, touching it on its nose.

The owner of said f9f felt her cheek warm up.

Chris then flew back to nautilus

"mission successful, have mister orca clean up this trash, royal fortune is gonna have a fit over it if we don't"

Chapter Text

Charles was on call, chris was on his fiance's boat for reasons, like flag management, and everyone else was at their base dorms

"So.....the cold war thats brewing" asimov said

"Yeah.....not my proudest time to be alive.." chris said

"Well first thing's first, we need to assert our neutrality in this" charles said, voice full of anger

"Easy on that, I go around and threaten an airstri-"

"DONT YOU FUCKING DARE"

"...party pooper..."

"if I may, with eagle union leading a group of nations against the northern union, it stands to reason that we simply cannot remain based in pearl harbor anymore" thomas said

"I agree with that, but we cant move our assets just like that" Dante said

"No we can't...." Charles said

"perhaps we could relocate to brest?" maximillian suggested

"No" chris said, "hawaii may be surrounded by water, but that makes it easier to patrol, land is where our kansen would be most vulnerable"

"and on top of that, moving there means securing the arsenal as azur lane territory, something iris orthodoxy would never allow" charles said

"speak for yourself, I could put a word in..."

"I object to this, if we are to move, it shall be near the kiel canal where we will have our new HQ" Schultz said firmly

"Thats an even worse idea and you know it" Maximilian said angrily

"I agree with max here, for one thing, we're trying to secure the PACIFIC right now, any movement of our hq to the ATLANTIC requires either control of the northern passage through maple monarchy or going around patagonia, not fucking happening" chris said

charles groaned "you know what? I have a better idea, as I command our operations across the pacific, and you guys manage pearl harbor, how about you make a formal request for your personal fleets' bases to be turned over to azur lane jurisdiction, and I'll get us some forward bases to work with in the pacific, hakuryuu's thinking of getting truk rebuilt and kure handed over to us via yamato's reccomendations once we make it clear to sakura that we can be trusted"

Chris nodded at that idea "I'm on board, I'll have to go talk to some people about getting san diego as a port, since thats where the third fleet is based"

"It'll be harder for me to convince the marshals back in the motherland to let me have say over petropavlosk and fokino, as well as vilyuchinsk, but who knows, comrade soyuz may be able to force their hand" asimov said, stroking his GLORIOUS PROLETARIAN BEARD.

"As we have no base in the pacific, taranto would have to do for our connection" dante said

"dont get me started on our bases" thomas groaned "we're still trying to restore authority over the empire and negotiate with territories to achieve that goal, same with iris orthodoxy, despite what max here will say"

maximilian growled "we have complete control over our colonies"

Chris sneezed

everyone looked at him

"sorry, I'm allergic to bullshit" chris said

"OH THAT WILL NOT STAND-"

Chris glared at him "try me frog-ass"

"both of you, enough" charles said, "just try not to kill each other, and negotiate with your governments, until then, continue whatever refits you can, and those that have to wait will have to wait longer, charles out"

he cut the feed

Chris slammed his fist into his desk.

"Damnit~ thats one hell of an idea, hey almighty eagle union government can I have one of your most valuable ports pretty please with sugar on top?" chris said with fake puppy dog eyes that made enterprise laugh.

"You sound like dad when he was ranting about people interfering with training" enterprise said with a giggle as she drank some herbal tea.

"I'd expect as such, by the way speaking of refitting, hope ya dont mind but I'll have to refit you a little"

"what for?"

"well as it stands, I'm considering giving you something better than screw propulsion for your ship speed, integrating my combat system into your mainframe, turbojet missiles, machine-gun based CIWS units, and of course, extra cargo room"

Enterprise was intrigued "I was wondering when you'd be eccentric with me, I have no objections, but what kind of propulsion are we talking here?"

"waterjet"

enterprise's eyes widened "waterjets? are you sure they'll be able to move my rigging?"

"yes, and to make sure its possible, part of your refit will involve getting your westinghouse reactors to become a gear cube, thus giving them wisdom cube properties" chris said

Enterprise was stunned "this idea, wisdom cube integration.....I knew I radiate it, but are you sure this will work?"

Chris smiled "of course I do, my mech suit works on wisdom cube principles"

Enterprise's mind cleared up.

"I see, well then guess we'll refit away"

"so we will" chris said with a little boop on her nose before he had to walk off to oversee other refits.

XXXXVVVVXXXX

The dockyard was abuzz with bulins, manjuus, and naval officers working like a well oiled machine in refitting full sized riggings, including notably two battlecruisers

"commandant, what is going on?" Niimi asked curiously

"Those hulls belong to scharnhorst and gneisenau" schultz said, I've recently gotten approval to equip them with a triple 380mm cannons, but able to fire shells at a faster rate, we've improved their dispersion using improved turret development principles, it should have similar accuracy values to the likes of the north carolina class battleship turret" schultz said, "but with the ability to handle superior shells"

Niimi nodded, "and I assume they'll be given a general overhaul in size and strength to safely handle them?"

"Ja, I've authorised the bulins down there to imprint armor data from rooks to make them stronger and faster, they'll be able to handle the 610mm HBX torpedo we're developing, thanks to commandant chris's aid we may be able to make them pump jet capable, like we plan to do to make the battlecruisers faster than the battleships" schultz rattled off.

"I wonder, why doesn't the bloke give everyone hydrojet propulsion?" thomas asked

"he discussed this some time before you came here, jet propulsion for a naval ship works best if the ship is meant for stealth and speed, a battlecruiser is a tets to see if we can have a fast capital ship without the need for nuclear power, to save up on funds" schultz said as other commanders walked over.

"I find the idea not worth our time, if it works, dont replace it" Asimov said

"Not a bad philosophy mi amico" Dante said, "though there's something you forget"

"нет, I didn't forget, but we've been killing sirens, I don't doubt for a minute that they're holding back, but we can simply make what works but better"

"Thats why I have friedrich" Schultz said "and why we're constructing the preussen, twin 483mm guns, you see those monsters over there?" schultz pointed to a MASSIVE turret being built, utterly massive

"We had to build our own class of munitions ships to have our ironworks back home make the gun parts so the base would only be burdened with assembling them, but a 300+ meter vessel is insane to build, we're running out of room to build these ships" schultz said sadly, "I cant even finish the hull of this lug"

Asimov nodded "I understand, I wanted to build a superior battleship to the soyuz, but was told the shipyards didn't have the room, so they're sticking me with helicopter cruisers..."

"Thats just wrong" Maximilian said as he saw the new iris battleship hull being constructed, riveted even.

"Thats our new battleship design, the bourgogne" Maximilian said, "super alsace from what I've been told, 431mm main battery, should be enough to suit any needs"

Thomas nodded and saw the massive refit work going on on an old run down beat up hull, two of them in fact

"Hood and Warspite, getting much needed overhauls" thomas said as the old turrets were removed and disassembled midair by mechanical arms, before the material was melted in a massive smeltery, before leaking into channels as metallic wisdom cube material, then being recast by chris, who used a lathe to convert the concept into twin 508mm turrets, the gear cube formulating in the lathe, before popping out as a rainbow cube.

Chkalov came over and admired the work "splendid, now comes...the hard part"

Chris nodded, and activated the lathe again, this time, numerous old bofors, pom poms, and other AA weaponry were conveyed into another smelting basin, along with old worn out 283mm twin-guns, three-guns, and endless grey tier gear, all thrown into the smelting basin, melted down into the same metallic wisdom cube alloy that soon was put into a massive channel work that filled giant containers

"Stand back ladies, it's gonna get hot" chris warned.

Hood and Warspite both stepped back.

With a wave of his gloved hand, and a re-arrangement of his engineering goggles, he threw the switch to dump the allow across warspite's vessel, which soon started to glow brightly, before it shrank, sliding itself through the air towards chris.

warspite ran over to see it.

"its....just a hull, a model sized hull, superstructure is there but no weapons, no radar, what are you going to do with this thing?"

"I'll hammer my way at it" chris said with a smile before he got out a toolbox, opened it, selected a specific tool for the job, plasma welding tool, which he applied to the gear cube to weld it to the hull, before using the heat of the plasma gun to bind the melted alloy of the model perfectly around the old hull.

once it was cooled off and binded, chris handed it to warspite

"it'll resonate with you, this is a crude bypass of the usual binding process, normally I'd have the full hulls out for the binding, but a 1,000 foot battleship can't fit in here, so you'll have to bind outside, hood will be next up" chris said as he activated another switch to dump melted alloy.

he did the same process, but added some uranium to hood's model.

"be careful when binding to it, it can get...explosive" chris said.

hood nodded, politely bowed, and walked out.

chris took off his googles and wiped sweat off his brow, eating a footlong veggie sub and drinking some sweat tea.

schultz had decided to take action by this point and got to work on another lathe, asimov as well.

maximilian couldn't believe what he was seeing, and neither could dante.

"were we...always fools?"

"maximilian, mi amico, get a hammer" dante said, picking up some tools.

maximilian looked at his rapier, and sighed, sheathing it and picking up a toolbox.

The commanders began coordinating more refitting efforts, asimov and chkalov were chatting about science stuff while working, schultz was constructing a twin 420mm gun upgrade for geryon, and new type zwei rigging for tirpitz, to be the counterpart to geryon, a lovely idea.

Dante was honing his new SAP shell gun, a triple 457mm SAP turret, for mounting on the new regia-class battleship, marco polo was blushing thinking about dante mounting her with his gun (and yes you fucking pervs, she meant it like that)

Chris again was doing his thing, petting manjuus for a job well done and giving bulins lolipops while he watched the other refittings.

He knew he'd have to do the CVN-65 refit all by himself, and having to install waterjets on a few uboats was driving him crazy because ONE such uboat kept trying to renact jaws.

if she wasnt so adorable he'd smack her.

Maximilian was unusually helpful, compiling finishes on the refit for clemenacau, who's flight deck was being covered in such an alloy to be reinforced and able to handle future iris jets.

He even approached chris for once "tell me, how did you make this alloy?"

"It wasn't easy for starters" chris admitted as he sipped some sweat tea.

"wisdom cubes are an interesting thing, they can resonate and form a concept, I can mess with concepts myself, my mech suit is a perfect example of this, I figured using my mirror sea capabilities on the low-end, I could melt a wisdom cube and have it encode itself into metal so the alloy can be used to forge itself into a new concept, as you can guess, being the only one that can do it, means we NEVER have enough to do this the easy way"

"I see..... I feel your pain.....I feel I'm the only one taking this naval reform seriously back home"

"excuse me?"

"I don't like carriers, but I see the future in your long range missiles, perhaps an arsenal ship would do me some good, the iris navy doesn't really seem concerned with securing our colonial holdings.....and that means we'll be losing a lot of ground to those top hatted prudes across the channel"

"assuming they can even work a deal...."

"oui, and I'm not wanting to see my country get left behind, I'm telling you this now because, my title's on the line, the second estate's high peers consider me a fool for not proving that the navy is needed to secure our prestige and territorial integrity"

"Aight, sounds simple enough, your west coast is under constant siren attack right?"

"oui"

"and your colonies are in revolt correct?"

"oui"

"and whats the government wanting to do?"

"aerial assaults from the homeland..."

"Ah, I see, air force and army politiking, I assume the aerial supply runs have had issues?"

"lots"

"then I think we know why chuck's so determined to have carriers"

"....now I get it..."

Chris smiled "you can hate carriers, but dont deny their usefulness"

"I wont, I think I can solve our issues with an operation from brest all the way to algiers, we can secure corsica and toulon, but I'll need my entire fleet up and running"

"you need jean bart dont you?"

"oui..."

"hahahaha....." chris chuckled, and messaged jean bart

jean bart walked up

"hey, heard ya need me" jean bart said with a frown

"I do....I'm going to launch an operation from brest to algiers, toulon, and corsica" maximillian said

"and you need me, for what?"

"holding supply and shore bombardment"

"I like that, who else ya gonna bring?"

"clemencau for carrier support, I'll link with dante for sardegnan support in the algiers campaign"

"fine, I'll get some vichya ships scrounged up, still their boss ya know"

"thats fine"

"anything else?"

chris spoke up "the royal navy won't be of much help from what I understand so if you do this, make sure normandy is secure, may need to link with schultz on that"

"I'll see to that" maximillian said, "thank you mon ami" he said somewhat quietly as everyone left

Chris chuckled "just think, 10 more years and he'll shake my hand on the street"

XXXVVVVXXX

Kearsarge's hull was pretty much being dissected, her flight deck got shortened but armoured, guided missile arrays were being installed thanks to plasma smithing, and more of that precious alloy was being used to fit her with an upgraded power system.

"how much of this alloy do you have?" thomas asked

"enough for some refits, I used enty's wisdom cube radiation to make fresh cubes to melt, but as you can guess, the supply is limited..."

"very..." thomas nodded sadly

"I can't even fix up mikasa...Idk what to really do.." he said as he got the final refit done, enterprise had decided to bathe in the alloy to refit herself that way since she had molecular alteration down.

she focused on the molecules and adjusted her power generators, changing her propellers to water jets, and increasing her armoring and size a bit.

She then emerged from the pool of alloy and let chris eye her down, perfection.

chris's happy look was interrupted by a call.

he answered it, and the message made his eyes widen.

"Thomas....maple monarchy has been granted constitutional independence from the royal navy......my superiors have asked me to work with you and the maple monarchy military command on the possibility of integration of greenland from the vikingr federation and alaska from eagle union...."

Thomas's eyes widened "GREAT SCOTT"

"wait why didn't the eagle union take greenland, dont they have bases there?" an overhearing maximillian ask

"they tried, apparently the vikingr federation was so staunchly opposed to them buying it that most in the government figure those snowcapped territories may be better suited in the hands of a snowcapped ally, especially with the northern union's revolutionary front running about" chris said

"I see, let it be run by people more experienced in winter war so that if the vikingrs oppose it, they can deal with the headache so eagle union can focus elsewhere, interesting idea...though alaska will not like this" thomas said

"I know, she's a sweet girl though"

"I was-"

"I know, but the cruiser wont like it either"

Enterprise nodded in confirmation "and you have no idea how much everyone hates the vikingrs, especially iron blood, northern union wont oppose it either since...now I get it"

"yeah, but we need to hurry, I'll get our diplomats to vancouver, thomas, get some ships, we may have a new base of operations in the making"

thomas nodded eagerly

"TO MAPLE MONARCHY!"

Chapter Text

Chris and Thomas were at the docks readying for their visit to maple monarchy

"Okay enterprise and audacious are to be our flagships for the voyage, escorts will be laffey and javelin...what else" chris asked absentmindedly.

"where do I fit in?" a voice called out

Thomas and Chris turned to see a blonde haired twin-tailed carrier that looked very familiar, but dressed in a black tattered coat and hat, with actual shorts.

"By jove, its the ultimate nightmare scenario, HORNET'S MULTIPLYING" Thomas shouted in horror.

Chris however, familiar with duplicate situations, shook his head and smirked "Hornet...META?"

"Thats correct blondie, hornet of the ashes, call me AlterHornet if ya wish" AlterHornet said

"Pleased to see another yorktown class META, you seem chipper compared to the other one I'm familiar with"

"Hehe....figured that'd be the case, when the poor girl saw me she hugged me for 5 straight minutes, I hugged her too since I never knew my siblings...poor grim ghost has had it rough.." AlterHornet said.

"Now that you mention it, you seem to be quite friendly for a META, usually they want my head cut off or something" Thomas said

"Well, maybe thats a side effect of the device I'm using, I have a control device that seals corrosion away, I was coming to give you one in fact" AlterHornet said as she got a device out from her boobs, because META powers.

Chris took it without another word, the device was odd, but the moment he had a firm grip, the device extended a thin mesh that vanished into his skin.

"Heh, Grouchy Enty did warn me that would happen, but the point is there, you're now able to block corrosion and corruption, think of it as like a radiation suit" AlterHornet said with a sunny smile

Chris couldn't help but blush, the smile was so warm it could melt the south pole.

"Thanks AlterHornet, but I have to ask, is that all?"

"Nope, the Ashes are waiting for you near the big island, they want to talk, but I think that can wait a little" AlterHornet said

Thomas was taken aback by chris's casualness towards METAs.

"forgive me but....by your demeanor....have you been around METAs a lot?"

"Lots of times" chris said, "especially the most powerful and dangerous METAs around......bonnie rich, and Alterprise as we call her"

AlterHornet beamed "oh you MUST tell me more, but lets meet me, and my sisters" AlterHornet said

Chris couldn't help but nod

"well we can delay our voyage, TO THE YORKTOWN HIDEOUT" Chris said as he dived into the floor and it SOMEHOW opened for him.

Thomas....confused as all hell, jumped in with AlterHornet

XXXVVVXXX

They found themselves in a common room somehow.

"How in the bloody thames of lady victoria did we get here?" Thomas asked completely bemused

"Mirror sea manipulation, I can bend reality a wee bit" Chris said

"so you basically jumped dimensions......for this?"

"That is correct" Chris said with a cheeky grin as he prepared top the summon the yorktown quartet with a very complicated ritual.

He got out four cups of coffee, four eagle feathers, and rang a bell

Four very gorgeous carriers showed up soon after.

"Chris what the- WHAT THE HELL" Enterprise shouted in shock

"THERE'S TWO OF MY BLONDE YOUNGER SISTER!?" Yorktown said excitedly

"Oh god there's two of her..." Wasp said in dismay

"Holy shit I can go fuck myself..." Hornet said in awe

AlterHornet looked utterly befuddled.

"Okay......first question, why are you all packing massive racks, second, why are all of you hot, and third, WHY THE HELL IS ME LOOKING AT ME LIKE SHE'S ABOUT TO DRILL ME" AlterHornet said in terrified amusement.

"we're all nuclear supercarriers...except wasp, but she hasn't had time to get refitted" Yorktown explained.

"wait wasp, half-sis? cool" AlterHornet said excitedly

"chris...explain where you found another hornet please" Enterprise said, sitting down for a cup of coffee.

"she kinda just walked up to us at the dock, she just gave me a device that allows me to interact with METAs....speaking of though you may wanna contain your radiation" Chris suggested

All 3 nuclear carriers did so.

"wait..radiation?" AlterHornet asked

"Yeah....I didn't quite get it, but now I guess I do...the way I perceive it, corruption is like cancer...and nuclear kansen can be described as wisdom cube chemotherapy or radiotherapy, originating is basically accepting that you're a weapon and losing yourself....nuclearisation is becoming a weapon, but not forgetting who you are....the light to origination's dark" chris theorised.

"I see, that does explain a bit...." AlterHornet said.

"Hm....does that mean if I shoot a META, I can kill one?" Enterprise asked

AlterHornet sighed "yeah...you could...let me guess...Akagi?"

"Akagi"

"That's kind of also why the Ashes are wanting to talk to the commander here.....I know we just met but....I do have something important to say" AlterHornet said sternly

"By all means go on" Yorktown said softly

AlterHornet coughed but began as Hornet sat down for some coffee, the two humans sat down too.

"The Ashes as you likely know are lead by Alterprise.... there's many of us, Hiryuu, Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Giulio Cesare, Nevada, Ark Royal, Renown, Repulse, Kimberly, Arizona, Hipper, Wichita, and a few more" AlterHornet said

Enterprise nodded

"Well, we're not exactly fighting one enemy, we're fighting two, antiochus...and the Infernos......the ones that burn all around them..." AlterHornet said

Chris sipped some tea he had prepared with his METAhuman powers, and his face grew dark.

"Let me guess, bonnie rich?"

"You've met her?"

"And tried to kill her..." Chris said grimly

Everyone paused

"You...tired to kill her? and you're still alive?" Enterprise said in shock "chris, you've told me a lot, but you never spoke about previous encounters"

"Yeah, because the bitch should've stayed gone, Alterprise and I were on an X hunt, and we saw Bonnie show up with a few attendants of slaughter, Alterprise gave me the sitrep, and I prepared to fight, I had a sword made of irradiated metal, dangerous but I had been exposed so long my body could fight that off....but corrosion is something else..."

Flashback

"Bonne homme richard? the AAS that got torched? huh..." a younger chris said

"Maybe in your time but not mine, you're tainted by antiochus....interesting..." BHR grinned

"I was forced to have their parts implanted in me, but make no mistake richard, I'm no friend to them" chris said with a glare

"Chris...back down...this is one person you dont want to anger" Alterprise said

"I know...."

"Well if you dont want to anger me, how about a fight huh?"

"NO" Alterprise yelled, reaching for her arrow.

The infernos moved to defend, but Bon Homme Richard just smirked

"nah, I got this one"

She stepped up and cracked her knuckles

"Go ahead human, see if you can be more than what your puppetmasters make you to be"

Her taunt was her mistake, chris's slash sliced through her skin and severed a breast from her, making her cough corrupted blood.

"W-WHAT THE *cough* F-FUCK"

"Irradiated siren metal with the resonance power of a high frequency blade, also saturated with some e-cube energy for anti-humanoid siren efforts, guess it works on YOU too" chris said with a glare

Alterprise raised her arrow at bon

"leave this time, the sirens have long ceased their troubles here, this world is a ruin courtesy of the X, I can stop HIM from killing you, but not the X, so GO" Alterprise demanded

Bon homme richard glared at the both of them, and with a repair protocol, left in a tornado.

End of Flashback

Everyone stared at chris in shock

"An irradiated high-frequency blade forged of siren metal and saturated with e-cube energy to boot, such a weapon.....thats how you can kill a META?" Thomas asked

"No, the answer is more simple, the radiation was carried by my desire to protect, the high frequency part allows an easy slice through any barrier, which is the true way I can slice METAs, slice straight through their conceptual body, ribbing out their cube is the final piece of the puzzle, its how I intend to kill her and free all timelines from her faction's terror once and for all"

Everyone took this in.

"So...basically, its either HF blades or using anti-corruption powered by positive use of mass destruction weapons....." Thomas wrote that down.

"So if enty here were to want to kill akagi now what she's META..." Wasp said

"All it'd take is one good nuclear arrow shot and Metakagi crumbles, though a direct shot to her wisdom cube carries with it the danger of all the corrosion corrupting the area"

"how do you plan on circumventing that?" AlterHornet asked

Chris showed several hexagonal reflective metal pieces that he summoned, they floated in the air and then merged together, forming a container.

"This is one of my siren powers, mirrors, it allows me to summon little mirrors that can reflect corrosion or energy-based attacks, but if I force them to converge onto a singular point" he demonstrates by having the shape collapse, forming a black spot in the air.

"I can make black holes, nifty huh?"

everyone clapped

"But there's more, I don't just intend on using this singularity to absorb the corrosion, to be fair enty your radiation could counteract it since you're far stronger than she is, that I know"

"And how do you know I am?" Enterprise asked

"Metakagi and Metaihou folded the moment Satsuma showed up, you could beat Satsuma in a fair fight"

Enterprise chuckled "You flatter me dear"

"Enty you haven't even BEGUN to use your new power"

"Oh you're wrong there dear, I was practicing earlier, and discovered this" Enterprise smirked, as she summoned a FUCKING SCYTHE.

Everyone backed up

"The grim reaper is here to collect~" Enterprise teased

"REAP ME MOMMY" chris said instinctively

AlterHornet and Hornet both laughed their sterns off.

Thomas however was thinking.

If he could contain corruption, or even purge it....

"Chris, pardon me for some time but....if you could extract uncorrupted data..."

*one secret convo later*

"Thomas....I'm in, I'll see what I can do....AlterHornet, is this battleship a part of the infernos?"

"Yes."

"Then there's no time to waste, we need to find her...and kill her"


*Funeral gong rings*

Chapter Text

*clang, swoosh, bzzzt, combat noises*

A storm was raging over sakura's isle of dormitories on the water, thunder crackled, rain poured, and wind blew.

On a large battleship styled like a shrine to Susanoo-no-Mikoto, two people were dueling on the deck with electric fervor.

"You must be quicker, faster, more precise!" Musashi yelled as she blocked an incoming sword strike with her katana.

She parried multiple following strikes, one barely grazed her sleeve, but she held on effortlessly.

"Good, very good" she said with a smile.

Another strike got through her defenses and landed through her kimono, slicing a small hole in it but not touching her skin, though the electricity coming off the strike made her quiver a little

"Ara, very good Shikikan, you're mastering the art of Susanoo well" she said, dispersing her katana

Chris bowed in respect "thank you for letting me learn from you"

"You carry the spirit of lightning within you, but your fire is knocking it off course, you must be calmer, but quicker too, you are the guide of the power of the storm" Musashi said

Chris nodded

"I have studied the power of yin to compliment the yang around me, I unleash the yang through the jets and those that carry them, I am the yin to command their strike" chris said

"Interesting, you train in arts of dragon empery, yet attempt to refine it through sakura arts, you flatter us shikikan" Musashi said with a chuckle

"What can I say, I always sought the wisdom of gods, and you're one of them to me" chris said, making musashi grin

"Easy now, don't want you have your pelvis broken now do we?~"

"Yes that WOULD inhibit me" chris said with a hearty chuckle.

"Hehe, now then, show me how you channel lightning without using your blade as a conduit" Musashi said gently

Chris nodded, got into a proper stance, and began arcing the air around him, lightning soon formed around him, and eventually, he guided the lightning to the sky, firing a massive bolt.

Musashi was impressed "I admit I never saw a need to learn how to conduct such a power, but still, a human being able to do that?"

"My augmentation allows me to summon electrical charges in the air, its simplified but if you can guide it, it will be natural to you" Chris said

Musashi nodded, took a deep breath, and moved like chris did, purple lightning appeared around her, and she shot it up into the air, the lightning being thousands of times more energetic, splitting the storm clouds above and causing an electric avalanche all around them, resulting in basically thousands of lightning bolts that caused power failures, overcharges, or just made one destroyer happy (eldridge)

When the chaos settled down, chris noticed an un-intended side effect, he tried not to laugh.

Musashi stared at him confused "what?"

"hehe *snicker* poofsashi" chris said trying not to lose it.

Musashi tweaked her head in confusion until she noticed her tails, and her ears, in the water, her fur was standing on end, she looked like a giant ball of poofy fluff.

"How did....that...." She realised she was still charged.

Yamato ran out, poofed as well

"SISTER WHAT HAP-" she paused, musashi looked at her funny, they both looked at each other in shock.

"Oh please no, no, not another one, no no no" chris pleaded quietly

And then kaga appeared, looking grouchy and poofy.

Chris fucking lost it at the pouty floofball, he ran off the ship and proceeded to laugh his ass off into the water.

Shinano walked up, a bit sleepy, and saw her sisters all poofed up.

"Mmm....who's the father?" she said sleepily

Musashi and Yamato nodded, and Musashi tapped shinano, making her poof up.

XXXXXVVVVXXXXX

IMMEDIATE CUT TO SOMEWHERE IN THE PACIFIC

"ESSEEEEEEEEEX CAN WE GO HOME?" a destroyer whined

"No, not until we take this island" Essex said, firing a crossbow shot that unmade a siren breaker in a single shot.

She launched her skyraiders as the destroyers provided small gunfire support for shore battery assault, Essex's bombers completely obliterated the siren defenses on this side of the island and inflicted heavy damage elsewhere.

Essex sighed "That's good for this side, how you doing over there Langley?" Essex asked over radio

"The siren installations have been disposed off, the island is under our complete occupation" Langley said

"Good, that makes 8 major targets hit, according to our data, that leaves one final siren fleet in our zone of operations, belfast are you there?" Essex asked

"Standing by" Belfast said

"The final siren fleet will be upon you in several minutes, its several intruders and queens with one MK 3 destroyer, recommending fairey gannet support from perseus" Essex said

"This is perseus, the gannets wont be as required, jervis was equipped with a hedgehog arsenal and she boosts our passive depth charge deployments as well, I'll still deploy but in a minimal role so I can deploy more wyverns" Perseus said

"Alright, I'll deploy my emergency bombers in case there's something sneaking by"

Essex then heard explosions in the distance, then silence, and the more explosions, before belfast reported back

"All targets destroyed"

"Good, reporting to the commander"

Essex sent her report, "took down 16 attack forces, secured a siren supply complex, air supremacy possible, moving to supply complex to launch sorties to secure total air supremacy over this section of sea"

The report was received, and Charles replied back

"Affirmative, report the name of this supply complex so HQ knows where you are"

Essex filed that away.

The eagle union sixth fleet breathed a sigh of relief as they all rested in their various islands, the royal navy fleet that had joined them for this specific excursion felt exhausted, the solomon sea was a hard fought prize, and now that the fleets had secured it, the iron blood 1st carrier strike force could rest knowing the bismarck sea was safe from one crucial area.

Their fight to the secure the bismarck sea had been barely a blip on the radar, but their flagship, manfred von richtoffen, was not someone to be idle, and she said such to essex

"Essex, you can rest, but if any of you wish to join me, I'm heading around this island and securing the nusantara seas with help from any other forces in the area"

"This is the united states, I bring with me 4th fleet carrier strike force one, I hear you and I'm moving to help" United states said over the radio

XXXXVVVVXXXX

Compiler herself was sitting in the banda sea, coordinating queen task forces, though her main terminal was somewhere classified, she was here to face whatever came near here

And then she heard the radio crackle on

"Compiler is it?" guten morgen, AND GUTEN NACHT" Richtoffen said before the signal cut.

"What the hell was that" Compiler pondered to herself as she tried searching for the source of the signal.

Instead she found her stealth fighter jets up against ME 262s and ME 155Gs, the latters rockets ripped into her jets armor and detonated them midair as the 262s raced past the carnage and struck one queen task force within seconds, destroying it completely

"WHO IS THIS, WHO ARE YOU?" Compiler demanded

"I'm the red baron, and you? are dead to me" Richtoffen replied as compiler noticed a red shape coming towards her, she hid herself in a mirror sea to avoid detection.

United states was calmly delivering freedom to the unenlightened masses as she fired off her panthers and borrowed TFA-52s, the rockets and bombs detonating pawn and queen alike to the sound of the battle hymn of the republic.

her mechanical eagle screeched as she rode on it

"Sorry for not knocking, but FREEDOM RINGS BITCHES" United states said as her eagle fired off missile feathers that attacked shore installations.

the surface fleets meanwhile were handling the mass produced forces rather well, eugen was quite enjoying her new refit upgrades, her laser cannons and guided missiles decimating the rooks

"Mmmm battleships? nothing more than small fry" she boasted, putting on some shades.

"Step aside prinz, let me show you how a goddess does things" Ägir said calmly as she took the field as a horse of bishops and knights came at her, several MK II oceanas as well.

She unloaded her laser CIWS system on them, destroying many of their main batteries before her guided missiles deleted several unfortunate sirens from existence, she then summoned a golden vortex to hurl at the enemy in front of her.

"Ahahahahaha! Be engulfed by my maelstrom!" she shouted out, Eugen had to admit, she was good.

Guam was busy being the cruiser killer elsewhere with help from another heavy cruiser

"ey nice work bremerton" Guam said

"No prob Guam" Bremerton said with a chipper grin

The submarines under them were having a ball, it was intense sure but they had no reason to really fear loss, their waterjet propulsion and sleaker refitting had made them quieter, faster, and deadlier.

Compiler was annoyed, the attack wasn't supposed to be here yet, and her forces were being struck at multiple places at once over incredible distances.

"Alright you wanna play? I'LL PLAY" Compiler got up and summoned a mirror army of queens to make an air attack nearly impossible, dissolving the sea around her.

As they flew up however, an entire flock of angry 262s blew them right out of the sky, making way for one angry red dragon, specifically, one that had aspects of a fokker dr.I tri-plane, a red one.

"WELCOME TO MY FLYING CIRCUSSSSSS" MvR hissed as she had her dragon let loose with AP rockets, AAMs, and machine gun bullets from its wings

"WHAT IN AOSTE'S PLAYBOY MAGAZINE STORAGE IS THAT" Compiler said as the dragon started breathing jets of flames that burned a path straight to her.

To her credit she wasn't defenseless and fired mirror-like shots from her rigging secondaries, and her tactical squadrons harassed the dragon MvR was piloting.

But then she started flying higher.

The squadrons chased, but she was already too fast, too high.

she attacked every squadron with deadly precision, compiler couldn't believe it, a carrier kansen with her own plane, and it was kicking her ass.

She tried to get a summon call in order to get help but the line was dead, and explosions in the far off distance indicated the carriers weren't the only ones here.

"Damnit, alright thats it" compiler folded and summoned a portal unit to flee before richtoffen could destroy her body.

Richtoffen sighed as she landed her plane on her summoned rigging and got off

"Richtoffen here, compiler's out, air superiority achieved over here" she said in the radio

"Good the battles are still raging but we have air supremacy over here, ready to dock on sulawesi and secure the seas" united states replied

"Copy that, moving to papua to extend air fighting to timor island"

"This is Royal Task force 3, ark royal speaking, bringing with me sakuran 5th carrier division to help secure the philippine sea"

"Roger that, the eagle union 2nd fleet under Iowa will be headed your way to reinforce" Iowa said over the radio, she turned to her half sister delaware

"ready to begin operation leyte gulf 2.0?"

"I'm ready as ever" Delaware said.

and like that, the 2nd fleet sailed towards the philippine sea.

on the other side of the ocean, the 1st fleet and the sakuran 1st carrier division under the newly refitted kaga, was sailing towards chile, with unicorn and her light forces covering them every step of the way.

Chapter Text

The sounds of fiddling courtesy of colorado filled the air around azur lane, the carrier hai was running high, and numerous victories were being reported.

chris was happy to hear that, and he admired the fiddling of colorado.

"You fiddle well" chris said, patting her head, making her smile.

"Thank you commander, I do my best" Colorado said

"I must admit, I feel bad about not letting you and your sisters out and about" chris admitted

"Its fine, I know you want to give us a design overhaul to let us become part of the new big seven idea, though I hear there may be an eighth?" colorado asked

"yeah, it'll be an insane concept but the eagle brass says that if I want to keep my rank then I'll need to deliver a ship powerful enough to tango with the super battleships of sakura and the royal navy, though if I'm honest, I have to make up a concept for something that huge....and schultz is already working on a super battleship he believes needs to be powered by e-cube energy and nuclear matter to be fast enough to compete, when I saw the turret....I realised eagle union will definitely need a battleship of similar caliber"

"Hm....what will my caliber be?"

"508mm like hood and warspite, you'll be gifted super heavy shells to have your own niche in this regard" chris said

Colorado nodded "I see, I'm worried this could be too much, wouldn't it be easier to just give me the 457mm standard?"

"it would, but the brass wants bigger guns, and I'm being pressured to deliver, halsey believes I'm wasting resources and I agree, leahy also questioned this, though king is happy to be competitive against the royal navy in any way, and nimitz has told me to make more ships like nautilus" chris said

"interesting opinions...." colorado said, "if the rejection is 3-1, how come you're still being told to go through with this?"

"wilson wants me to replace the army in any way I can, he believes that the army is irrelevant in the state of the world we're at, and that long land war shall soon be a thing of the past" chris said, knowing this is also why the air force is still getting budgets.

"hm..." colorado said

"I don't trust the secretaries as far as I can throw them, but wilson's my attache as it were to the civilian government, and if it wasn't for him the naval budget would be garbage" chris said solemnly

"Hm, that does bring to question, commander, is there any major events involving the navy you'll be preparing us for?" colorado ask

"in this year?"

"yes"

"Nothing comes to mind"

"What about nuclear, I've heard some stuff about that, should we be ready for any crisis?"

chris shuddered.

"Nope, nothing to worry about at all 'rado, we're gonna be all peachy for the entire year yep yep yep" chris said sweating bullets.

Before colorado could corner him about this, a feeling of doom surrounded them, a desire to do evil.

Colorado felt an urge to beat chris up, then rape him, then kill him, then rape his corpse, the stare in her eyes was of confusion.

"chris.....I have a sudden urge to commit wrongdoings...." colorado said with worry

Chris's eyes flickered with nostalgia, he closed his eyes in thought.

"this feeling....oh no..."

Chris turned to the floor, and saw a shape emerge from it.

"Bing bong whats up?" the shape said

Chris sighed "oh great......"

The shape then snapped and the feeling went away, but her red eyed stare and her black hair indicated to colorado that this intruder meant businesses.

"Who...is this?" Colorado asked with hesitation

"Its arbiter XV, devil" chris said

"Ding ding ding you're correct" Devil said with glee as her shadow faded.

"why the hell is there an arbiter here?" colorado said, her sense of reality fading due to the sheer absurdity of a arbiter just casually showing up.

"I'm gonna break down the myth of americana.......ykw fuck that figure it out yourself, I'm here to fight you chris, gonna test and see if you have the skills to face what's to come" Devil said

Chris sighed intensely "shit......let me guess zero's trying to stop me again by siccing an arbiter after me?"

"No she wants to kill you"

*beat*

"SHE WHAT"

Colorado walked out of the room with this forbidden knowledge

"Yeah she wants you dead, your ass is marked for termination" devil said dryly

"well.....guess I better kill all of you first" chris said, but as he lunged forward devil summoned a mirror sea around the both of them, transporting them to another realm of existence

outside, the mirror sea was visible, a firey eye stuck between two spires, staring at the kansen.

"why the fuck is half our base surrounded by this shit?" maryland asked, annoyed by her lack of gym access

Enterprise was sleeping, though it likely wouldn't be that way for long

XXXXVVVVVXXXXX

Chris was in the mirror sea, it looked like hell.

"hey so I had to put you in here to properly test you, but I'm not gonna try to kill you alright? thats not fun, zero isn't fun" devil said with genuine whine.

chris, a bit annoyed but understanding, sighed.

"Okay so what's the deal here?"

"I wanna see what you can do in a mirror sea, bring your full arsenal to bear, whip out everything you have, I'll send unit after unit, now come on, LET'S GOOOOO" devil said, her battle lust kicking in as she summoned mass produced models.

chris immediately summoned his jet armor and went into jet mode, fully transformed, he dropped maverick missiles on the mass produced models, easily destroying several MK III models and heavily wounded the MK IVs.

Devil smiled and summoned humanoid variants, chris entered mech suit mode and fired sidewinder missiles off at them, which destroyed their flesh bodies.

Devil smirked and summoned MK IV strategists with faster aircraft.

"These are aircraft that can achieve transonic combat, lets see if you can fight like a dog" devil said as the mk IV jets flew off.

chris went back into jet mode and fired more sidewinder missiles, dozens of them flew towards the MK IV jets, some got destroyed outright while others got heavily damaged, but chris noticed some avoided a lot of damage and one was dangerously close.

not thinking for more than a second, he deployed his vulcan gun.

The gun ripped through the jet's armoring and even some of the rockets it was firing, chris did a barrel role around the squadron and launched more sidewinders, ripping through the squadron with relative ease.

His speedy dogfight impressed devil, who was casually taking notes.

The next squadron to face him soon found themselves at the mercy of sparrow missiles, the longer ranged missiles destroying them before they could get close, the strategists took things up a notch with combined squadrons.

chris sweat a little as he swerved through the incoming hellfire, he deployed sparrows and sidewinders to clear a gap, allowing him to use the explosion cloud as cover.

*TFP transform sound*

He was back in mech mode, but now he was more agile, with his new agility he readied his vulcan gun in his right arm, firing at nearby siren jets, causing more to get shot down.

Devil for a second thought chris had vanished as his transformation into mech mode had a kick of speed boost to it, throwing her tracker off for a second.

Chris dropped onto one siren jet, and steered it into another, breaking the formation, he fired vulcan shots at another jet, jet punched another, and deployed sidewinders for several more kills.

Devil was noting all of this, despite being up against MK IV jets, despite being all on his own, he was keeping up with them easily.

once the squadrons were all clear, chris dropped maverick missiles onto the strategists, destroying them.

some mk IV breakers came and fired upon him before he could catch a break.

"relentless as ever" chris muttered as he swapped modules for the AGM-88.

before devil could react, the breakers found their Anti-air tracking used against them as the AGM-88s homed in on the radiowaves and destroyed their anti-air systems.

they fired their guns at chris as he got within visible range, but all the big salvos missed him, and their secondary shots did too, and their AA, without proper guidance, couldn't hit him either, he got close to a breaker, swerved until he was upright, kicked it in its rigging, shattering through it and destroying the body.

but the inertia he had to fight to resume his speed was too much, and another breaker got a good shot at him, his armor took the full force but it knocked the wind out of him, sending him careening to the ground.

"*cough*, right..." he muttered as he got up.

The next shots from some oceanas did some damage to his armor, and a breaker salvo blasted some of his chest armor off, it regenerated, but chris knew he was gonna have to up his game.

So he switched his sparrows and AGM-88s for CBU-86s and his vulcan arm.

"Cowabunga it is"

*the only thing they fear is you begins playing*

Chris wasted no time, firing his CBU-86 cluster bombs for cluster burst damage before firing at everything with his vulcan gun, ripping and tearing through numerous siren humanoids like butter.

Devil stepped back to avoid the flying body parts and rigging as chris punched and shot through the horde, especially after he began channeling electrified energy through his armor and out his gauntlets, causing lightning bursts that blasted apart even the most armored of siren.

Observer, who was also in the mirror sea, was a bit frightened

"s-so this is what the test was for?"

"yep" devil said, barely phased

"a-and zero wants to kill him"

"yep"

".........we're gonna need a bigger army" observer said as the next wave was shot up to hell.

Chris meanwhile was entirely focused on slaughter, not thinking, only killing, nobody knew it but this was PTSD for him, he was flashing back to the times he couldn't do this to the sirens, and how many allies and friends had died because he couldn't protect them.

as bodies piled up, chris got more and more determined, but then his gun ran out of bullets.

"what!?"

It was at this point devil deployed an enforcer which promptly socked chris in the helmet.

he recovered from the punch, but noticed his helmet was shattered, and he was bleeding.

the doom music stopped.

Observer grinned "looks like we found his weakness"

"You absolute moron" devil said

"What? that was an arbiter punch to the face, he is not going to getting up from that"

But then chris got back up, wiping the blood and shattered helmet pieces off his chin (and face)

"Alright then" chris said, his eyes glowing with rage.

Devil knew it, this wasn't the end of it, and she had the enforcer attack again, but chris began tangoing with it, hand to hand combat now, and chris wasn't exactly going to make it easy, he was using lightning-infused punches, which actually got through the enforcer's rigging, causing glitches.

Observer grimaced, and decided to ready her rigging.

"Observer, NO" devil demanded

"too late, we can kill him now, and be done with it" observer said, firing a full salvo at chris, blasting him several meters, and heavily wounding him.

"it...is done" observer said

XXXVVVVXXX

Enterprise had woken up, and was given the sitrep

"A fucking arbiter, GRRRR" she fired arrows hoping to break the mirror sea, but as this was an arbiter's sea, all it did was ripple.

"and I cant use my nuclear arrows, I'm not blowing up the base" enterprise said, growling in anger.

"don't worry enterprise, chris will break out of it, he always has" bismarck assured her

"bis....you know damn well even he knows he can't fight an arbiter....we need to get in there and save him NOW" enterprise said, channeling her nuclear powers.

to her shock, he was able to bend space and time around her and summoned a massive beam of white light that ripped through the mirror sea.

inside, the beam cross the sea and went out the other side.

"well, looks like you're gonna have to answer to enterprise" the devil said

"she can kill me all she wants, chris is deader than ever"

"NO HE FUCKING ISN'T YOU IDIOT" Devil said angrily.

"That kind of shot would destroy any normal kansen" observer argued, "its anti-conceptual in nature"

"yes, but wouldnt it disintegrate their bodies?" devil opined

"yes of course....wait...why do you"

chris's body wasn't disintegrated

"don't you fucking get it, remember how we discovered bon homme richard existed in his timeline? THINK OBSERVER, bon homme richard as a ship, yet not as a kansen, no kansen existed, our wisdom cubes could never make one"

"I don't see how thats relevant..."

"in all the timelines we've meddled with, we could never recreate bon homme richard at all, yet not only did CV-31 exist no problem, her name was reused for an amphibious assault ship, AND it rejected bon homme richard when she tried to merge with its charred hull"

observer paused, "now that you mention it, the memories....." observer said as they felt enterprise enter the mirror sea

devil worked fast by trying to delay her with demons, she knew they wouldn't last long but she needed to explain.

"also in his timeline, the x, they weren't invincible, he was able to slay them, he was...on their level" devil said slowly

and thats when CVN-80 rolled out of chris's pocket, its presence healing his body slowly.

"and he HAS created concepts we haven't done so before.....wait......wisdom cubes...e-cubes...turning concepts into physical form.....didn't anzeel theorise those cubes were a solid form of energy that connected to another d-"

her face read "oh crap" all over it as chris got up, growling, angry, and ready for war, his body contorting, his wings spreading out as his mech armor dissolved around him.

"thats right observer, chris isn't from any test site, he's from a timeline we have no control over"

"You mean that....t-technically, h-he-he's-" but her words were cut short by a storm of glowing swords courtesy of chris, that sliced her body and affected devil too.

his metallic wings becoming prismatic, covered in a rainbow aura, his blonde hair glowing golden.

Before observer could react, every siren except her and devil were slashed apart by the storm of glowing swords and beams of light erupting from the ground, even the enforcer fell to the onslaught.

"Fuck this we're going NOW" devil said, shoving observer through a portal.

"chris, you did well, you passed, just watch your back from now on, and more importantly, let's fight again sometime" devil said, before dissolving the mirror sea, which had the side effect of chris's glow dissolving.

he found himself standing back at base, enterprise rushed to hug him.

"oh thank god you're okay" enterprise said, happy tears rolling out of her face.

"as I'll ever be, had to deal with the devil" chris said

"so it WAS an arbiter" chkalov analysed

"one of the more vicious ones too, wanted to see what I could do...." chris said slowly.

enterprise sighed.

"they were really brave to do that"

everyone nodded, and chkalov muttered to herself "I hope this offensive and fighting with the arbiters will be the most stressful incident of this year"

Chris heard that and muttered to himself "it wont be" as he looked at the year.

1962

Chapter Text

The sun had set, night had come again, and the combined assault fleet of azur lane, as organised by charles, was prepared to let the carriers do nightwatch as per routine.

Hakuryuu loaded her jet model zeroes, parseval and weser loaded their Me 262s, they had taken the watch tonight, for tomorrow may be their final sunrise.

or maybe not, they didn't know, what was known was reports of a massive force of antiochus engaged in battle with a META carrier and her forces near the ryukyu islands, estimated about 600 mass produced models had been destroyed already, worse still, the island chain was overrun by corrupted humans.

There had been efforts by the siren leaders to ask for a truce, but charles had refused all offers of truce, "a truce with the sirens would like telling tojo his soldiers can rape some more women in nanking for a bit while we help him fight off the communist scourge" was his reasoning, a sharp reasoning, a precise one, and his response when the siren observer told him that if they were to get serious his fleet would be destroyed?"

"what will you do when my adjutant commander does then?"

That response had gotten hakuryuu pumped up for a fight, and she said as such

"Dickish he may be, but man when he wants a fight, he FIGHTS" Hakuryuu said

"I can tell" Parseval said as Weser nodded

"He's still an idiot" Shiranui said, "how does he plan to convince sakura that the alliance is worth it?"

"he has us" harbin said, drinking some apple juice, "we're good"

"this IS a large fleet you know, hakuryuu, how do you hope to lead us all into battle?" shiranui asked

"like a dragon" Hakuryuu said

"my rigging is not like you" Parseval said with a glare

"dont try me parsy, I can slice you with this katana in a moment's notice-"

*bonk*

"nodachi" shiranui said after bunking hakuryuu on the head

Hakuryuu glared at her with draconic rage, then cooled down when she saw charles walk up

"ready to deploy planes" Hakuryuu said

"hold that thought, have a seat" Charles said, motioning to the chairs on deck.

Hakuryuu, confused, sat down, everyone else did too.

Charles then went to bridge, and opened a channel to the entire armada, all across the pacific

"In my 50 some-odd years of life on this dirt bucket, I have fought across the pacific, did a stint in bantra bay, looked pretty in the ports of other nations, and brought several kansen to life, people back home believe the alliance is worthless, that we can't win, BULLSHIT, where I come from, the very idea of losing is offensive, we do not tolerate losers, we acclaim winners, thats why we will never lose, we will fight, and we will win"

"Some may fear they will die, that is often the case, I know many of you still fear you will die even after numerous battles, but anyone who fights despite that is a true hero worthy of praise and respect, and anyone that hides in some random cubicle deserves nothing, for they will never overcome their fear by sitting on their ass and ordering poor bastards under them to die for their ambitions, remember back in training when you were drilled for hours on end? that was for a purpose, to give you the iron will to always be alert and ready at a moment's notice, it may have been rough, but you were ready, and you still are, take a look at my right hand man, he came here rusted, yet the moment he was put to the test, he proved how he earned the stars he wears on his shoulders, and why he earned them, for he is one who follows the orders he gives, for this grand fleet is a team, we live, fight, eat, and sleep as a team, no one is a hero for doing everything by themselves, the fuckers that write about individual heroes know no more about combat than they do giving their 2 dollar prostitute a good fucking, we're a team of the finest ships, with the finest equipment and the best spirit and people in the world, I pitty the poor sirens we're up against, I really do"

"Do not think your job is unimportant or irrelevant, a kansen can fight and pilot their ship, but an officer points them in the direction of their enemy, the average cleanup worker gives them company, a kansen gives you a roof over your heads, the ordinance crews make sure you have your guns and ammunition, the boatswain's mates oversee caretaking and repair, a builder builds needed machines and stations at a moment's notice, every last damn person in the mess halls, even the one who boils the water, is important, do not think of just yourself, but of your buddy, whether you're marine or ship, you work together, till the very end"

"sure, a lot of us want this war over, but the fastest way to end the war is to find the sons of bitches that started it, the fastest way home is the way that sees the absolute annihilation of antiochus, so keep moving, and when we find that son of a bitch observer zero, I'll make sure she's hanging by the gallows myself"

"I know you marines wonder why you're even here, what you'll do in the midst of battle, well I'll tell you, the sirens are the enemy, wade into them, spill their guts, shoot them in the belly, rip our their unliving guts and use them to grease the barrels of your guns, or the gears of a ship, when you get hit by the dust of battle and realise its not dirt but the guts of your friend, you'll know what to do"

"I don't want any messages that you're ho0lding your position, we're not holding a god damned thing, we're hitting them hard, fast, and without any letup, we're not interested in holding anything except the sirens' eyes, which we will rip from their sockets, tie a bunch of them into a noose, and hang them with it"

"There may be complaints that I'm pushing you too hard, but I don't believe it, an ounce of sweat saves a gallon of blood, the harder we push, the more sirens we kill, the more sirens we kill, the fewer of us will be killed, pushing harder means fewer casualties, no poor bastard has ever won a war by dying for his country, he won it by making the other poor bastard die for his"

"When you're old and telling your grandchildren what you did during the great siren war, you wont have to cough and say "I shoveled shit in louisiana", you can look them dead in the eye and said "I made the holocaust look like a fucking joke by riding with the grand armada and a son of a goddamned bitch named charles sherman!"

"And done last thing, when this war is over, and we're done killing sirens, I expect every one of you to look at the people that sat back and watched, and tell them, "if you ever give us a reason, you're next", that is all"

With the speech done and everyone well listened, all across the pacific, the sound of dead sirens grew louder and louder.

Chapter Text

"Never give up, never surrender"

That was the mantra task force fox was drilling into themselves.

With a legion of marines to fight off corrupted humans in tierra del fuego after the strait was secure, the task force was quite large, 2 attack carriers (tosa and kaga), one fleet carrier (taihou), around 40 auxillary ships, zuihou and ryuuhou being the light carriers to assist the full carriers, the eagle union seventh fleet under nautilus was here as well as the northern union's 2nd fleet under sovetskaya rossiya.

this massive assault force had been organised for a set of goals as dictated by chris and Yura asimov

Main task: secure the straight of Magellan

Secondary tasks are as follows:

1. invade tierra del fuego and liberate it from the META occupation

2. secure a beachhead on the other side of the strait for future strategic measures

3. retrieve RN Assets

4. secure siren terminals

5. gather intel once the main objective is complete

6. ???

The 6th task on the secondary list was still restricted, but whatever it was, it clearly had to be focused on later.

but royal navy assets? what assets did they have here, and more importantly, why did they need to be secured?

Kaga was stressing over this as the strait came into recon range

"confirmed sighting of mark V models of antiochus" taihou said

Kaga nodded "specifics?"

"Rooks, knights, and what our shikikan of eagle union would call a "shit pot load" of strategists and trackers

"Must be one hell of a fight" Tosa said with a smile

"we'll need some more recon before we break them, eagle fleet seven, can you get close?" Kaga asked over the radio

"Yes we can" Nautilus replied "I am already ahead of you and moving with my K and Balao-class friends, we're picking up numerous intruders, awaiting orders"

Kaga and Tosa thought, with MK V models, something barely even used before, a lot of them, the sirens were clearly fighting something fierce, and kaga decided to break radio silence to report back to chris

"MK V models located, mix of carriers, cruisers, battleships, and submarines, awaiting your reply over"

Chris's reply came quick

Guided missile models, strong ones at that, most of you would need to rely on secondary or anti-air fire to combat them, if they're in the strait, then that means they're containing something, likely a couple METAs, focus on submarine and plane recon, and keep the NP Ks and my Balaos from schooling on top of nautilus, have them form individual groups with no clear pattern, and when the time comes to fight, nautilus has to strike first, she has the best arsenal for breaking the enemy gates

Kaga read the message and passed it onto Tosa who relayed it to nautilus.

Nautilus was happy to be given an important job and jetted ahead.

The rest of the subs were a bit confused

"Nautilus is a nuclear powered ballistic missile submarine, with technologies we can't replicate, she has e-cube torpedoes and a recon and sonar system that can help her trail the enemy while being completely invisible to them, idk what the commander was thinking by giving her command of a fleet when she's basically an entire wolfpack, but she's to the depths of the sea what enterprise is to the skies, she rules it, and she will get the job done" Pennsylvania said over radio, having been eavesdropping

Kaga smirked "which job?"

this got a laugh from the surface fleet.

"You act like I'd know, idk what the rear admiral wants" Pennsylvania said

"He wants you to come back alive" chris said, diving into the call

"Nemo, you've got this, but remember, you're not firing guided missiles, you're firing ballistic missiles, they have much better range than your guided ones, but wont be powered for the entire flight, and most importantly, they are far stronger, and thus must be used only when necessary"

"I understand dad" Nautilus said

"DAD!?" everyone else said over the radio

"I adopted her, anyways I'll be surveying the situation from my monitors here, in case you need immediate pullout"

"hehe, pull out" archerfish said

Chris was unamused "if helluva boss ever debuts in this universe you'd be head writer for sure"

"Anyways if you need to be dragged out of the line of fire I'll drop a mirror sea on you, it'll lead back to base, but be warned, it'll tax me to do this, I'm not a full siren, so when I drop it, run like hell into it" chris said before cutting his line

Kaga and Rossiya looked at each other, sighed, and prepared to fight

XXXXVVVVXXXX

The METAs and sirens were fighting like hell in the straight

"Bon homme richard's gang of jolly outlaws, your power is impressive, I'm actually having fun" Purifier said, one of her turrets being askew as she fired purity shots that ripped through Soryuu META's planes, her cards were slicing through siren jets no problem, though the missile barrage pinned her and her allies down, they were proving to be quite resilient

"You know, next time you say it's always sunny in rio, I'LL BE CALLING BULLSHIT ON THAT" one META said

"Oh calm your tits, we get to fight sirens, what more could you ask for?" Bone homme richard said as she used anti-missile defenses

"I'd ask for you to use more of those anti-missile flares" the META replied back

"Hmmph, picky picky" Richard sighed as she deployed more anti-missile flares to satisfy her ally's bitching

The siren attack was relentless though, and purifier was not keen on letting up, she had deployed her guided missile arsenal for this fight and even summoned mechanical crabs loaded with guns on their shells to keep the pressure on, one had managed to nearly bisect soryuu META earlier, she survived thanks to her demon card projectiles that sliced it up.

It wasn't a large force of METAs, just bon, elizabeth META, soryuu META, yamashiro META, and 3 other battleships that had just undergone origination, but were being used to destroy low-tier siren ships

"hmmph, death ain't that bad I guess" Ipiranga META said as she fired some salvos at a nearby rook

"sometimes I wonder why they bothered keeping you around" Los andes META said as she fired a full 6x2 381mm salvo, destroying a MK III cruiser force.

Purifier was growling, they had guns that matched hers in sheer salvo amount, and their META powers, although clearly used by amateurs, were extremely frustrating, incan spears coming out nowhere and impaling her humanoid siren models like nothing, serpents constricting mass produced models until they exploded, and the lest said about the massive feathered metallic dragon the better.

Purifier began telling her strategists to deploy rocket-wielding jets when her scanners detected zeroes.

"Zeroes? here?" she thought to herself, her companion on the line, observer, noted it

"Did you say zeroes?" Observer asked

"Yeah, didn't think sakura would be here" Purifier said

"count it as a blessing, they will likely focus on the METAs, we can crush this bothersome bug for all time if we play it right" Observer said

"You're forgetting about the anomaly" Purifier said

"He wouldn't have come all the way out here, he's not in direct command, and he sure as hell not going to want to be that petty if he was here" Observer said

"What makes you so sure?" purifier asked as she obliterated one of richard's defensive squadrons

"Because death has told me he LOATHES bon homme richard, to the point he nearly killed her DESPITE G being there to tell him no" Observer said

"Now THAT I want to see, this bitch has interfered too much already" Purifier said with joy as one of her purity salvos struck richard directly, peeling off some of her flight deck

"OH YOU'VE DONE IT NOW FUCKER" Bon homme richard glared with rage and summoned her attack helicopters

XXXXVVVVXXXX

"Position confirmed, its bon homme richard, and she has weird flying craft that are hovering in place, with propellers on top" Taihou said

"wait...WHAT?" Chris said

Chris stepped back from his chair is shock

"what's the matter?" kaga asked

"those things are attack helicopters, shit this means bonnie is a mixed concept..." chris said

"what do we do?" taihou asked

"who's leading antiochus's forces?" chris asked

"we have visual on them as well, its purifier, she's actually winning it seems" Taihou said as one of her recon planes was attacked by a helicopter

"SHE KNOWS YOU'RE HERE AND SHE KNOWS I'M NOT, DAMNIT" Chris growled

"Okay thats it, nemo, you got a lock on the area?"

"affirmative" Nautilus said cautiously

"Okay, follow my instructions closely, load the starbringer missile into the ready position" chris said

Nautilus nodded, and had her mechanical orca ready its blowhole

"missile is ready" Nautilus said

Kaga and Taihou both felt like something was about to happen, chris's tone hinted at nothing but sheer seriousness, it was direct, cold, yet with an air of anxiety about slipping up.

Chris activated full screen on the radar data he was getting, noting the coordinates of the attack.

"Alright, begin countdown to launch" chris said, nautilus did so

"10...9...8...7...6...5...4...3...2...1...."

"LAUNCH!"

With a wave-splitting firey exhaust, the missile rocketed into the air and headed straight for the dueling forces.

XXXVVVVXXX

Purifier was attacking her query relentlessly, summoning reality-warping shots that made the battleship trio sweat.

"MIERDA, we're going to die here and its all your fault" Los andes META said, glaring at Richard

"My fault? I gave you the power to survive, its your fault if you cant fucking use it" Richard spat back

"Richard is right, those who are weak do not deserve freedom to live" Libertad META spoke, her voice cold as she downed some breakers

"well fuck you then" Los andes META said

Purifier chuckled as she kept her attack going "can't even keep your own troops together" Purifier taunted as a helicopter attacked her

"Neither can azur lane, and they still are able to scrap together a force to kick your ass" Richard taunted back, "including a force thats watching us right now"

"Let them watch, they can live, you however" Purifier said as she readied a massive laser

But as she readied her laser, her alarms went off, and so did richard's

"what the hell, incoming ballistic missile? but you dont have an orochi" bon homme richard said confused

"and you dont have a boomer, so who the- WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT" Purifier said in shock as nautilus's missile came right down upon them

*KABOOOOOOOOOOOM*



The firey burst is all many sirens remember before they feel the cold sensation of going offline, soryuu META was knocked out cold, her rigging partially melted, richard herself was flung like shrapnel into a rocky area nearby, and purifier's rigging looked bleached with scorches and molten metal quickly cooling.

The explosion was so large and bright, a royal navy battleship saw it from her station, and chuckled

"Guess libertard found another nemesis" the battleship said in the most british of snarky tones, before heading to the area.

"PURIFIER SPEAK TO ME, ARE YOU ALRIGHT?" Observer said over the radio

"I'm on fucking fire, what do you THINK?" Purifier spat, her body still on fire.

"You're fine" Observer replied sarcastically

"That was a god damn ballistic missile....not even nuclear" Purifier said, snuffing out the fires on her person and rigging

"Thats not a good sign, how's bon homme richard?" Observer asked

"Pissed off most likely" Purifier replied back as the explosion cleared

And she was, she crawled out of the rocks, bloodied and bruised, and missing some of her rigging.

"Who did that, WHO THE FUCK DID THAT, WHO'S SLIMY LITTLE TWINKLE TOED ANTIOCHUS FUTA COCKSUCKER OUT HERE WHO SIGNED THEIR OWN DEATH WARRANT!?" she asked calmly

nobody responded

"NOBODY HUH? THE FAIRY FUCKING GODMOTHER DID IT EH?" she growled before a bomb hit her, a rakurai.

"your shouting makes it easy to find you" Kaga said over radio as a rakurai squadron spun around for another bombing run that knocked ipiranga META off balanced and splatting into the water under her

Nautilus knew she had more of a role to play and gave an order to all submarines

"Attention fellow submarines, deploy torpedoes, priority target: Bon homme richard"

The fleet subs schooled around her and then deployed their torpedoes, more sirens were destroyed and elizabeth META lost her fire control station in the impact

"HOLY FUCKING SHIT ON A SHITPICKLE" Bon homme richard growled as purifier kept firing at her

"Didn't expect azur lane to bring sardines, but it works well for us" Purifier said as she kept her onslaught up

The PanAm trio moved to fight the azur lane task force, knowing richard could handle purifier for some time, but richard stopped them

"These aren't average carriers, Kaga is a very experienced warrior, you'll need air cover to stand a chance" she said before deploying a squadron of attack helicopters

"Somehow I doubt they'll be needed but okay" Los andes META said as she opened a full salvo, all missed

"Okay let's try-"

Several rockets raced through the air and impacted Los Andes META's rigging, detonating her ammo stock and blasting 3 turrets to pieces

"MIERDA ESO DUELE MÁS QUE MIRAR A MIS PRESIDENTES NAVEGANDO EL HISTORIAL" Los andes growled as she tried doing a repair protocol, restoring her turrets before all 3 activated their AA guns, the helicopter cover fired missiles at incoming planes, doing some damage.

Ipiranga META just sighed and fired her full salvo at something in the distance, that something raced towards her and fired a stronger salvo that detonated some of her secondary guns

"Maldito....." she groaned

"This always worked with her...." Los andes META grimaced as rossiya fired her guns again, they missed but barely

"SHE isn't a sovetsky soyuz class battleship" Libertad META said, having used her abilities to ID rossiya

"I see you know of me, хороший, then you know who will be your end" rossiya said bluntly as kiev and kursk raced past her

Kursk singled out the helicopters and fired upon them, while kiev raced closer to the METAs and fired a torpedo volley that made them do evasive maneuvers, right into a line of salvos from northern union cruisers.

Soryuu META quickly joined the brawl and sounded off her planes one by one, they danced with the flock of flying jets.

"hmmm, kaga....been a long time" Soryuu META said coldly

"And it shall be again" Kaga growled as she threw more jets into the air, yokosuba R2Y2s, they wasted no time dropping their payload of torpedoes before racing back to kaga, the torpedo volley crippling Ipiranga META

"HOW ARE YOU THIS STRONG, ITS BULLSHIT" Ipiranga META growled

"your designs are bullshit" Taihou replied cheekily as her rakurais delivered a decisive bombing strike that completely knocked Ipiranga META out of the fight

XXXVVVVVXXX

"Why wont you DIE" richard growled

"siren tech bitch, it hardens in response to METAs, you cant kill me richard" Purifier said as she fired a full salvo striaght into richard's flight decks, richard in her anger unleashed a barrage of missiles that struck purifier

but purifier stood up barely phazed, her rigging glowing like a rainbow for a bit

"what did I just say?" she said before elizabeth META fired at her

Purifier unloaded her bishops' guided missiles, causing a perfect attack screen.

"Dont fuck with this purifier" she said as she readied a charged shot before releasing it,causing more damage to bon.

Bon was FURIOUS.

"what now boss?" Los Andes META said over the radio

"ENOUGH TALK, WE'RE GOING TO KILL EVERYONE" Bon said before she summoned a tornado around herself, her eyes glowing with rage, numerous siren ships detonated upon her summoning it, and purifier was blown back

"DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE" richard shouted as she unleashed lightning bolts, corrupted missiles, rockets, even suicide jets.

"wow, finally you decided to fight" Purifier taunted as she kept her assault up

XXXXVVVVVXXXX

The sight of the tornado made one northern union ship grimace

"Its her..." kronstadht said softly

Libertad META fired upon them, taking advantage of their distracted state, causing some heavy damage before she summoned a corroded volcanic eruption, filling the air with ash and lava

"LIBERTY HURTS THE TYRANTS"

Kaga and Tosa both backed up and nodded, but before they moved, 14 shots came in and struck libertad META in her side.

Libertad META's eyes narrowed, she knew who that was

and soon, the culprit came into view

"Tally ho!" the culprit said before she jumped into the air, spun around, and landed gently on mr orca, who hadn't submerged yet.

"a royal navy ship!?" Rossiya asked confused

"Right on the money my snowbound chap" the ship said as she turned to Libertad META

"Whats the matter Libby old bean? shocked that I'm still alive?"

"Not this bitch again" Los andes META whined

"I'm afraid it IS this bitch again" the ship said with a sarcastic twirl of her umbrella, she tipped her hat to kaga and tosa

"Ladies Kaga and Tosa, pleasure to meet you, quite a pleasure indeed"

"Who...is this" Tosa asked

"I have no idea" Kaga asked

"Not surprised, nobody remembers me, except for lizzie and val, even my old bean warspite would remember, but they aren't here I take it"

"STOP SPEAKING ABOUT THOSE BULLDOG FUCKING PUTAS" Libertad META glared angrily, "YOU'RE NOT ONE OF THEM AND NEVER WILL BE, EVEN WITH THAT REJECT MARY POPPINS ACT"

"My word..." the rather british ship replied as she expanded her umbrella and floated off mr orca and then touching down near the METAs

"tell me, has ol' lizzie come to call yet?"

"what of it?" Los andes META spat back

"Okay does ANYONE know who this person is?" Kaga growled

"she is a traitor, from rio de janiero" Ipiranga META spat

Thats when a flicker of recongition flared in one cruiser's eyes

"allow me" avrora said, coming out to look at the ship

"Cyka....I thought you were dead aggie"

"Oh it takes more than being abandoned by your countryman to kill me" "aggie" replied back

Avrora laughed "thats the agincourt I remember, how've you been doing comrade?"

"The usual, being a pain in libertad's side, I've been around the falklands for some time, called the lady of the falklands, an urban legend they say, after I was sold like chattel I escaped all the way to here, but the locals didn't like me" agincourt said, glaring at the METAs, of which another appeared.

"THERE YOU ARE YOU ROGUE SUBJECT" An injured elizabeth META said before she fired blasts of corrupted energy, agincourt deflected them with her umbrella shield before launching a full broadside, her guns nearly bursting and her rigging cracking

"Oh bother..." agincourt frowned

"Aggie dont tell me" avrora said with sadness

"I'm afraid so, my years in exile have cauight up to me, in top form I could handle libertad even as the META she is, but I dont have the time-"

Libertad META interrupted her with a lucky broadside that decimated agincourt's rigging, knocking her out.

"well SHIT" Kaga said.

thats when purifier's body flew towards them and landed near taihou

Purifier grinned at them "Please be a dear and handle this glitch for me" she said before she vanished with all her sirens

"glitch-" was all rossiya got to say before she saw the tornado steaming towards them.

"uh oh" Tosa said quietly as Kaga readied a storm of blue fire, sending at the tornado, it burned at the twister, but the twister fired blasts of missiles and pure energy, forcing kaga to evade

"DAMNIT......I should've done this chris's way from the start" kaga said as her eyes started glowing a firey azure, her arms lengthening slightly, her fingers turning into claws, her ears and tails lengthening slightly, fangs emerging from her mouth.

Tosa realised what kaga was doing but before she could say anything, the METAs reacted by fighting Kaga.

Kaga growled at 5them before rushing them, slicing Los andes META in the neck before unleashing firey fury upon Libertad META, her feral noises scaring the rest of the fleet a bit.

"what the hell is THAT" Rossiya asked

"Her Sambuhenge form, we all have one" Tosa explained quickly as Kaga went for elizabeth META and sliced her chest without mercy, making her fight back with her staff and whatever gun she could aim.

Richard had seen this but after blowing kaga away, she was set upon by numerous missiles and salvos.

Kaga refocused on elizabeth META, her mind focused on this, while tosa provided air cover support.

"WHAT KIND OF MYSTICAL BULLSHIT IS THIS" Los andes META screeched

"we're kitsune, work it out" Tosa replied bluntly as she summoned her fox spirit to lunge at Los Andes META who fired deliriously at it.

Everyone else had pulled back in amazement and to avoid being corrupted as bon homme richard kept her assault up on everyone.

Kaga was getting tired of queen elizabeth META's constant futile efforts, and prepared to do...something, when chris began talking through her radio

"Just because you can doesn't mean you should, leave them alive, bring back elizabeth meta and agincourt, I'm activating my mirror sea, step through NOW" he ordered as the mirror sea dropped nearby.

Kaga sighed and de-transformed before unleashing a massive flaming gale to blow richard's tornado away before usaing her own fox spirit to grab elizabeth meta and rushed through the mirror sea portal, motioning for everyone to follow

before anyone could stop them, they had gone and the mirror sea vanished with them.

Richard felt her chest heave in rage as she screamed to the heavens

"YOU BASTARRRRRRRRRDS"

XXXXXXXVVVVVVXXXXXX

Kaga ad everyone else stepped through the other side of the mirror sea, they were at azur lane's main base, and chris was waiting for them.

"why the hell did you do that, I could've killed her" Kaga demanded

"Yes but that doesn't mean it was a good idea, the objective comes first" chris said, revealing the 6th task, "retrieve queen elizabeth META"

"wait, is THIS the royal navy asset?" Tosa asked as she presented agincourt, who was unconscious.

"yep, I was informed she was alive some time ago and rodney requested we nab her, put her in the medical wing and vestal will have her all healed up"

"comrade.....I appreciate the recall order but, we failed to secure the strait" rossiya said

"its true, we effectively lost, but richard wasn't gonna let any of you leave alive, and at least in this way, we'll have a much stronger asset, oh and by the way, excellent shot with that missile nemo" chris said with a warm smile that nautilus returned, happy to have pleased.

chris then summoned his mech armor and dragged elizabeth META away

"wait where are you taking her?" kaga asked

"to extract information" chris said

XXXVVVVVXXX

Elizabeth META woke up some time later, with chris looking at her with a deadly stare.

"We demand you release us at once!"

"no" chris said bluntly

"we will have your head!"

"mhm" chris said, not caring.

"why have you tied us up anyway?"  elizabeth META replied

"need some information from you" chris said, still armored but pulling out his sword

"you cannot intimidate us, lowly animal" elizabeth META spat, literally spitting in his direction.

"I don't care if you don't talk, I'm not in the mood for talk" chris said, turning back to face the META.

"richard says a lot about you, she's terrified of you, but we are not, we will never be terrified of some boogeyman"

"really now?" chris replied with sarcasm

"tell me WORM, do you plan on torturing us? torturing richard? we laugh at the mere notion"

"well to be honest, I'm here for an exchange, you give me some data, and I show you something in return" chris said, focusing on his blade, exhaling, his eyes looking uncertain.

"You will never get anything out of us" elizabeth META said

"I will, thats what the sword's for, it'll be a nice information retrieval unit" chris said, his voice growing low

"and lucky you, you will be party to information only bonnie rich knows" he said as his voice gained a dangerous hiss

"and what would that...be" elizabeth META's eyes widened with realisation as chris readied his sword.

"how I can kill a META" chris said, his voice filled with murderous intent before he slashed elizabeth META's head clean off, before cutting into her torso and shoving a hand in there, as the body began to go limp, chris pulled out a corrupted wisdom cube, the body it was in melting into corruption that was contained by a device that chris activated from one of his gauntlets.

he turned to the door and walked out, cube in hand.

XXXXXVVVVVVXXXXX

chris showed the cube to the scientists, vestalt knew what he had done, all of them did.

"did...did you at least make it quick?" vestalt asked

"yes, now be quick about this, thomas has been insistent we extract any useful data we can from this" chris said.

"why did it have to come to this" Chkalov asked

"Because I believe in balancing, a life has been taken by my hand, I shall fix this by giving a life through my other hand" chris said, staring out the window to an aircraft carrier decked in royal navy flags and the union jack, it looked massive, and yet it laid there, empty of life.

"God has saved their queen" chris muttered silently as work began on extracting any useful data from the corrupted cube.

Chapter Text

"So thats your report, task force fox fought bon homme richardf's META force, a ballistic missile was used, and you managed to secure HMS agincourt"

"That is correct, we failed to get a shot at a beachhead sadly, and the strait is not secure"

"That is a minor setback for now, we still have security over the canal at least"

"and I know tempesta will keep it secured, its a fragile balance but I assure you admiral that canal will not fall under enemy occupation"

"still, congrats on securing agincourt, and good work on keeping the hawaiian islands secure, be ready for a counterstrike, and just as a precaution, we are approving the e-cube WMD projects"

"....making azur lane into the destroyer of worlds, how human"

"just get it done"

Chris had been dwelling on this convo for hours, he was staring into space near the laboratories, not even enterprise could get him out of that stare.

"WMDs....." was all he'd say to passerby.

True he had developed the e-cube torpedo with help from asimov, but e-cube bombs to be dropped from carrier bombers? an e-cube naval shell? those were similar ideas to the ones that nearly doomed his world.

sure there was to be a trident lock, requiring the consent of the ship, the faction commander, and the base commander before an e-cube weapon could be deployed, but that still didn't sit right with him.

"glasgow.....st. petersburg....beijing......the ol' plains, caracas, the bahamas....." he muttered to himself.

Nobody could guess what he was thinking.

It was a laundry list of things he was thinking, and as a jet flew by him, he let out a massive sigh.

"Should've just killed myself when I had the chance....no...it wouldn't have made anything any better...." he told himself.

Another kansen walked up to him, one that had some strange insight to what was on his mind.

"commander....." the kansen said gently

chris looked down and instantly knew why she had appeared

"Nice to see you indy" chris said

"from you, it sounds actually endearing" indianapolis said with a warm smile

"let me guess, you know my stare?"

"its the same one you have when you see that bomb I lug around, you told me to stop, you were calm, yet dead inside..." the cruiser said

"and I dont regret telling you to stop"

"and I'm not upset, but...you do realise it was a dud right?"

"my superiors wouldn't have kept it that way" chris said

"....oh"

"but it doesnt matter, they want me to make e-cube bombs....and you know what is being asked of us" chris said

indianapolis nodded "I still have the bomb in storage"

"in your rigging?"

indianapolis spawned the bomb

"right...well, let's haul it into the lab.....testing will begin tomorrow" chris said

XXXXXVVVVVVXXXXX

BHR was in a state of perpetually pissed off, she ripped and tore into innocent prisoners

"THAT BLASTED JEFFREY DAHMER WANNABE, HE STOLE AGINCOURT FROM US AND HAS IMPRISONED ELIZABETH" she growled

Soryuu didnt even roll her eyes, she just stood their robotically "I'm surprised he didnt try to kill you, he HAD the weapons to try"

"I dont think he wanted to deploy that missile" METaihou said over the radio

"NO FUCKING SHIT, OTHERWISE WE'D ALL BE DEAD" Bon homme richard said, kicking ipiranga META in the shin accidentally, making her cough.

"AND NOT TO MENTION THESE 3 ARE SICK, should've dropped a tornado on azur lane's asses..."

"well what now boss?" pamiat merkuria META asked

"taihou and akagi, hear my orders, find charles, and destroy him and his fleet, when they're out of the way, head to azur lane, leave none alive unless they turn META" Bon homme richard replied

"hahaha, the insects stand nary a chance against us" METakagi proclaimed

"just remember, divide and conquer, attacking them all at once will be the end of you" Soryuu META said

XXXXXVVVVVXXXXX

in siren HQ, things weren't as grim

"Zero, they deployed a ballistic missile" Observer said

"a missile? not a bunch?" zero asked

"Only one, non-nuclear grade" Purifier affirmed

Zero didn't smile but her eyes flickered.

"Then that was his ace-in-the-hole for the situation, we've found his limit" she said with a tint of glee

"Does that mean I get to have some real fun?" Observer asked

"Yes, the time has come, execute protocol alpha-omega 13" Zero said

"Yes boss" Observer said, turning to Purifier, who looked like she was about to jack off to the concept.

XXXXVVVVXXXX

Back at base, some time later, chris walked into the lathe area, his face grim.

The namesake eagle was perched on enterprise's shoulder

"whats gotten into him?" San diego said innocently

"I know that look, its the same look I wore during the war...." Enterprise said with a tint of regret and sadness

"And like I said at midway, that means things are about to get ugly" Grim said.

"Agreed..." Enterprise replied

Chris looked at the bomb indianapolis had brought, and opened a panel on it.

He readied an e-cube core, and placed it in the bomb gently, securing it, then closing the bomb, before letting the lathe analyse it.

It eventually copied it into its creation area, using e-cube metal and siren metal to make a perfect copy of the bomb.

Chris sighed as he fiddled with the gear cube piece it had became, it looked like an add-on asset.

"I have in my hand, pandora's box" chris said lifelessly.

everyone stared at him, he looked disgusted by his own presence, daring to hold this destructive device.

"I just HAD to okay that missile, now my superiors think I am okay with this..."

"this may be a bad time, but...my superiors have approved of a rocket to handle such a warhead" schultz said

chris didn't even flinch

one of the scientists behind the design of the core approached him

"we still have to test it.....where do we go?"

Chris stared at him

"we'll go to niʻihau, its decently sized, in our jurisdiction so less red tape, only private individuals and our own personnel can go there, and telling them to leave is easy enough" chris said

"and what if they complain?" chkalov asked

"they can complain to me personally" chris said.

and so it was.

chris went to the island to convince the private owners personally.

XXXVVVVXXX

When his phantom jet form landed and he de-transformed, chris was set upon by guards

"HALT, NOBODY IS ALLOWED ON THIS ISLAND WITHOUT-"

the guard was interrupted by chris summoning his vulcan minigun.

"I see you have the gold VIP pass, never mind then" all the guards got out of his way.

Chris nodded, despawned his suit, and went to the main house on the island, and found the owner of the entire farm waiting for him.

"dont tell me you want to find another sakuran pilot" the man said

"Nope, but I do want to move bodies off the island" chris said

"excuse me?"

"I am rear admiral christian j wood, and I'm here to negotiate moving your family and guests off this island"

"why the hell should I do that?" the man asked

"because this island's been selected for a weapons test" chris replied bluntly

"unacceptable, who's your superior?"

"vice admiral charles sherman, but our orders come from alexander wilson, secretary of the navy, you want to fight the feds? be my guest, but you'll miss out on compensation, free transport of everyone and everything of value, and zero risk of a siren attack on where you'll end up, understand?" chris asked

the man twitched in fury, and was ready to start a brawl.

"you can have my island as soon as you pry it from my cold dead hands" the man said defiantly

chris stared at him for a solid minute, and then started laughing maliciously

"well I admit I haven't seen someone with balls this big since that night I spent in a gay strip club" chris said with a chuckle

"I am asking you to leave" the man said

"with all due respect, aside from good will, how do you expect to get me off the island?" chris asked

the man snapped and soon several robotic soldiers appeared, and chris's eyes went yellow in recognition.

"thats...OH HELL NO" chris dodged their shots and summoned his mech form.

"if you wont go quietly, we'll make you go feet first" the man said, donning on some siren armor

chris gave him a death glare, before sighing.

"I don't have enough time for this" he said before swiftly turning into his jet form and flying away faster than anyone could try to catch him.

XXXVVVVXXX

Chris touched down on the airfield and with a sound effect straight from transformers prime, transformed into mech mode and despawned his armor.

Enterprise and Chkalov were there to greet him, but the look in his eyes said everything.

"I didn't succeed, but it doesn't matter, that fucker is in league with antiochus" chris said

enterprise nodded in understanding "so what do you want to do now?"

chris sighed, softened his face, and stared at his fiance

"I wont burden you with what I want to do" chris said

Enterprise stared at him and shook her head "I know what you want to do, and you're right to assume I don't want to do it, but to ask someone else..."

Chris nodded grimly before turning to chkalov "did you make the new savage cube while I was gone?"

"da."

chris nodded, then activated his communicator

"Bunker hill reporting sir" Bunker hill said over the radio

"Bunker hill, are you able to carry the A-2 savage?" chris asked

"Yes, whats the mission?"

"Unbreaking arrow, aim for ni'ihau" chris said

Bunker kill recognised the code speak, soon the gear cube was dropped on her ship, she and her battle force had been sailing near ni'ihau on a routine patrol.

she installed the cube, and soon a special savage appeared on her deck.

"savage ready to launch sir" bunker hill said, her voice indicating that she was well aware of what was being asked of her, but she was ready to accept the consequences.

Chris nodded before replying back

"Okay, beginning protocol" chris said as his party and himself rushed onto enterprise's ship to observe from there.

Chris found himself on the deck, and with an affirming hug of his arm, began the protocol

"Releasing restraint levels 3....2....1... access keys recognised, first key already turned due to prior approval of the protocol for use in testing, second key turned with the resolve to see the test through, turning the final key to unlock the weapon, allowing use of the weapon until test is complete."

With this, Bunker hill let the savage fly.

The savage flew fast until it was over ni'ihau, wherein bunker hill opened the bomb bay, and let loose the "wise demon" bomb.

Down below, the owner of the island looked up at the sky as he saw the bomb drop

"what the fuck is tha-"



Aside from the sounds of the explosion itself, and the sound of dead silence ringing in people's ears, everything was absolutely quiet.

The blue explosion cloud could be seen across the entire island chain, the entire fleet saw it, chris saw it, his company saw it, bunker hill definitely saw it.

and the recording cameras in her battle force saw it.

The cloud eventually vanished, but the shockwave had passed by, and yet no one said a word.

there were no words that could be said.

until finally, the sound of silence was broken.

"I know what I have done.....for I am the best at what I do, but what I do....isn't very nice"

Chapter Text

Many moons and suns ago in another time.....

A rear admiral stands alone and gazes upon the battlefield.

wasteland, that's all that is left after what he had done.

His coat is tattered and coated with ash, his enemy had been defeated again, covered in volcanic obsidian and other such rock.

The ash of what he had done clung to his skin.

his country was now forever crippled, in order to seal the manifestation of humanity's ruin.

But it hadn't been the first time such a gaze had left his eyes.

every time he had given the order, every time he twisted the knob on the dashboard, every time he was told to give the order.

the results had made him stand deadly silent.

every time the sun set on his "handiwork", he barely moved.

he would eventually leave, go back to his ship, and move to his next destination.

He'd hear the congratulations from his superiors, the condemnations from those who wanted something to gain.

It didn't matter, thats what his friends and allies told him.

But it did nothing for his soul.

and this time was no different.

"Monster....if there is any good in your heart, if you ever escape....just kill me..."

In this timeline....

"Chris snap out of it!"

Chris did, seeing enterprise looking at him with logical worry.

Everyone was staring at him like he was dead, his dead-eyed stare didn't help matters.

He turned to everyone, and then back at the dissipating cloud

"At least it was a pretty color..." he said before leaving the deck and going to his office.

XXXXXVVVVXXXX

He filed his report about the test, named "able", and its success.

He got a call on the golden eagle phone and he answered it

When he saw who it was, he realised he was likely screwed.

"Hey there future son-in-law, heard about the test, judging by the look on your face I can see you witnessed it yourself"

"Yeah, saw the explosion with my own two eyes, dont worry I didn't use ellie for this" chris said

"probably would've been better if you did if you didnt want anyone else to have that burden"

"to be fair sir she doesn't need the plane to deliver an explosion like that"

"I see, well who dropped it?"

"bunker hill"

"make sure you talk to her"

"I was going to call her in when I got this call" chris replied

"Alright then, I wont keep you, just know the brass has your back, and that the navy wants you to test this against a full siren fleet"

"I will if the situation requires it" chris deadpanned

"good, but before I go, one last thing, how's ellie doing?"

"She's worried about being a good wife and mother" chris replied

"That sounds like something she'd worry about, with that in mind, I've already told everyone that you'll be on paternity leave with her soon, so dont worry about filing that" halsey said

"Thanks sir"

"you're welcome" *call cut*

Chris sighed as he called bunker hill in.

Bunker hill walked in with a face of death, because miss d floated behind her.

"D you really need to stop doing that" chris deadpanned

"Sorry, I was attracted by her thoughts" miss d replied

"and the scientists want to talk as well" bunker hill said, and the lead scientist came forward

"sir.....I don't know if I can handle making another one of these weapons"

"Really now?" chris asked sarcastically

"I'm already responsible for a lot of death and destruction to come, I dont want any more of this" the scientist said

"Stop whining" chris said with a glare

"sir I-"

"all you've done is develop the damn thing, I will not tolerate people being overdramatic, you think YOU are responsible for developing it? I'M THE ONE THAT ORDERS THE DROP, I WILL BE FORCED TO ORDER IT DROPPED IN THE FUTURE, AND SEVERAL KANSEN WILL HAVE THE BURDEN OF DROPPING IT" chris shouted.

the scientists were all silent

"I had to approve, with chuck, the development in the first place, I know what I was asking of you, its my fault you developed it, its my fault an island is now uninhabitable right now, if you want to be dramatic, hit the fucking bricks" chris hissed.

Bunker hill stepped up

"commander, war is never pretty, but that...that was a new level....one I don't know if I can play again"

chris stared at her, and then waved the scientists, dismissing them.

"bunker, you dont have to drop it again if you dont want to, I can get one of your sisters to do it, but know that we're at the crossroads of annihilation, the sirens will do far worse...which is why someone will have to drop the nuke again"

"are you saying that we have to do this because the sirens can, and will, do worse?" bunker hill asked

"far worse, I'm sure you know about the orochi"

"yes I do"

"imagine a fleet of ballistic missile ships, all carrying missiles like the orochi had"

bunker hill's face darkened

"thats what I'll be dropping the bombs on, bombs that dwarf this one in destructive power if things escalate like this, I'm already thinking of developing a hydrogen-e-cube ballistic missile in case they bring out multiple orochis, or if something far worse arrives" chris said, looking at miss d who nodded

"And thats why I'm also here, antiochus doesn't like what you've done, and they promise swift destruction of the carrier hai" Miss D opined

Chris nodded in understanding as enterprise and some others entered the room.

"Chris, we just want to say that we don't blame anyone for what has happened" Bremerton said

chris nodded, "I hold the blame so others wont have to even if it doesnt make sense...but I will have to say, we may end up having to fight soon" he said as enterprise hugged him.

and sure enough, he got a report from essex's fleet

"huh......comms cut.....massive fleet....missile.....massive shi- shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit" bremerton said, reading the report.

Enterprise stared at it.

"that....no...it cant be...." she said

chris turned to her and nodded

"I'm gonna get into contact with task force charlie, dog, and easy, hopefully they will pick up"

but none of them did.

Chris felt himself shake.

"Oh hell no..."

XXXXVVVVXXXX

A royal navy/eagle union force, under the name task force charlie, was fighting omitter in the deep pacific

"Blasted siren, ambushing us here, I told the commander we needed more recon potential" Prince of wales said as she fired a salvo deep into a breaker's hull, destroying it.

"It was quite easy once we tracked your comms, how foolish of you to come without reinforcements planned" omitter taunted as she shot prince of wales, disabling her guns.

"Whatever you've done, it wont save you from the wrath of azur lane" Vanguard said as she did a sword beam that sliced omitter's right hand.

"THAT HURT!?" omitter shrieked

Vanguard followed up with another slice beam that sliced one of omitter's cannons off.

Omitter got furious.

"OKAY THATS IT, YOU WANT TO PLAY, I'LL PLAY" omitter said, opening a MASSIVE mirror sea portal.

Vanguard braced for whatever was going to come through. but when something did, her eyes widened in horror.

It was a fucking orochi, and an entire mass produced model fleet.

"Oh....oh god no..." Vanguard said as she readied a full salvo, prince of wales was looking at her like she was crazy.

"its useless to try to fight it, but I'm glad to see you try" Omitter taunted as the orochi opened fire, the salvos ripping through the combined task force, indiana sent her mech to fight it, it tried to fire salvos and punch, but the armor seemed to deflect every blow.

"Shit..." indiana growled.

Vanguard fired a sword beam, which actually did a number on the armor and destroyed a turret, but before she could follow up, one of the planes from the orochi's flight deck dive bombed her, causing critical damage.

"tch...all units retreat!" vanguard gave the order, and everyone obeyed, skating away as fast as they could.

After awhile, they were able to get back in contact with base.

"This is HMS vanguard, we have an orochi on our tails, I repeat, we have encountered an orochi"

Rodney and Chris both heard this.

"well admiral? what do you want to do now?" thomas asked

Chris stared at thomas, then at the comm system, then at some designs on the wall.

"Get nemo on the line" chris barked into the comm system.

Nautilus soon answered

"what is it dad?"

"nemo, get to the lab, we're initiating protocol polaris" chris said before cutting the line, then turning back to thomas

"thomas, I was gonna save this until after I calmed down, but I have a question."

"whats the question?" thomas asked

"How soon can you get on that aircraft carrier outside and begin resonance?"

"as soon as I get out of this office"

Chris nodded, and said "go"

XXXVVVXXX

Warspite and KGV stared at thomas as he ran to and fro, gathering specific supplies., including some wisdom cubes, then he ran out to the carrier.

"what the bloody hell is going on?" KGV asked

"Hath thine commander gone insane?" Duke of York asked

"Idk" Valiant said, before she realised something in shock

"Warspite, the staff, its gone!"

Warpsite realised this and ran after thomas.

XXXVVVVXXX

Thomas was on the carrier, he dropped the cubes in the engine room, then laid out some mementos

"The staff of a fallen queen, the bell of the queen, a gear cube for a nuclear propulsion engine, and most importantly, the data contained from the META" he said as he dropped them all near the wisdom cubes.

They began to glow bright, and then they vanished.

Thomas then got blasted out of the ship, landing next to a furious warspite

"COMMODORE WHY THE HELL DID YOU STEAL-" she was stopped by an explosion of light.

Chris then played a song that echoed across the area, god save the queen.

As the explosion grew in intensity but then turned into a solid beam of life, a kansen took form, her rigging summoned around her, and as warspite looked on, she could only say one thing in shock.

"L-lizzie!?"

Chapter Text

The light had faded into nothing, leaving behind a new aircraft carrier decorated in the most british of regalia, flowers and even a mechanical lion could be seen on the flight deck.

every royal navy ship on base had come to see what was going on, and they were all stunned by the figure standing in front of them.

taller, more mature-looking, wearing a crown worthy of a queen, and wielding a more advanced looking staff, she stood in silence, looking around, taking in the sight.

she then looked down at herself, and her eyes widened

"I HAD TO DIE TO GET DECENT BREASTS ARE YOU KIDDING ME!?"

That was enough for every royal navy ship to give chris and thomas a knowing grin, that's lizzie alright.

"WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS, SERVANTS, WHERE ARE THEY-" she was silenced by a lightning quick hug.

"*sniffle* welcome back lizzie" warspite said, soaking elizabeth's clothes with her tears of happiness.

"warpsite, who gave you permission to cry?" Elizabeth said after processing what just happened.

"I did" chris said, getting a few odd glances from the gathered kansen

Elizabeth, still hugging warspite, and valiant who decided to join in, stared at the blonde haired rear admiral in confusion

"And who is this?" she asked

"I am rear admiral christian j wood, commander of eagle union, and I guess your servant?" chris said with a smirk

Elizabeth stared at him before moving an arm to clear her throat "*ahem* very well then, here my orders, I would like to have a ball celebrating my resurrection, and I want to know who has lead the royal navy in my absence" she ordered

"I'm afraid we'll have to hold on the ball, see not all of your subjects are here" Chris explained

"where are they then?"

"across the pacific, we've been fighting sirens constantly" thomas pipped up.

"very good" elizabeth said, still being hugged.

"nice to see you again by the way" thomas said with a bow

"wait...tommy? I remember....." elizbaeth said, her face falling

"yes, I was there" thomas replied solemnly

"you did what you could, the sirens had a traitor infiltrating parliament this I already knew, you are forgiven" elizabeth said

chris nodded in silence

"as for YOU eagle union rear admiral, why do you have royal navy honors on your uniform?" elizabeth asked pointedly

"hehe, well, its a bit of a story" chris said as king george V arrived

"its true..." she said in mild surprise...

"Of course its true, why else did I have a carrier hauled in?" thomas replied

"THAT WAS FOR REVIVING HER?" Warspite said in shock

"I SAID I WOULD" chris shouted

"so I take it you two are responsible for my revival, thank you, I've missed my sisters" elizabeth said, returning their hug.

this tender moment was allowed all the time it needed, until night fell and thomas towed the hugging sisters inside for a well earned sleep

XXXXVVVVXXXX

The next morning, chris made an announcement to the entire base and all task forces deployed elsewhere

"This is rear admiral christian j wood to all forces in azur lane, Queen Elizabeth has returned!"

The radiowaves grew thick with this message, across the entire pacific and north atlantic, from london to singapore on both sides, the message was received, Vanguard's forces were the first to cheer.

London received it, the admiralty were inconsoleable

"That old super-dreadnought cost us a large amount of pounds" one of them grumbled

"And saved london for as long as she could, stuff it" one of the sea lords said, one admiral, ranked admiral of the fleet, sent an official response back to azur lane

"This is admiral tovey, thank you for bringing her back, on behalf of the entire admiralty, I thank you for your work, and hereby officially allow you operational control over our many islands in the pacific and free dockage in singapore"

This message was received and cheers rang out in the azur lane officer quarters.

King George V was happy to hear that voice again.

More messages came in from various officers and officials, numerous task forces asked for permission to return.

Chris grimaced, if they all pulled back, the sirens would just retake everything, and with the orochis up and about, it'd be even harder than before

"I'm sorry but I cant recall you, we still have a job to do, the celebrations can wait" chris said

he then turned to elizabeth who was with him

"so...this is what an aircraft carrier looks like from within, I could live here" Queen Elizabeth said as she sat on her bridge command chair, wheeling around in it like a little kid, chris chuckled because he had lived on his for quite some time

"sorry we couldnt bring you back as a battleship" chris said

"I'm not too bothered, I carry firepower I never could've imagined before, and I know warspite has a vast battleship to be formed soon, I'm happy for her, but what about valiant?" elizabeth asked

"I'm thinking of making her an arsenal ship" chris said

"yes you did have that in your designs from what I see" Elizabeth replied, "you know, you're a decent commander, but where the bloody hell did you come from?" Elizabeth asked

"want to ask my fiance?" chris asked

"fiance? queen elizabeth raised an eyebrow

"yes, she's a carrier, in fact she's been wanting to see you for some time now" chris said with a chuckle as he saw CVN-65 materialise next to elizabeth's ship

"here she is now" chris said, waving at the kansen on 65's flight deck, who waved back

elizabeth was baffled, this ship was larger than hers, yet clearly had been used for months already

"who...is that....wait...the grey ghost!?" Elizabeth said in surprise as enterprise vanished from the deck, and then emerged through the bridge walls

"HOLY FUCKING SHIT" Chris fell out of his chair in shock as enterprise got out of the wall

"hehehehe~" was all enterprise said as she turned to elizabeth

"Elizabeth, its been a long time, its good to see you again" enterprise said with a warm smile

Elizabeth was in surprise as usual by now, enterprise definitely looked bigger in every way and yet wasn't as gloomy as before.

"Enterprise what the hell happened to you?"

"He did" enterprise said, pointing to chris who was standing up now

"guilty" he said meekly

Elizabeth couldnt help but laugh "so it took some new guy to make you smile, I think I'm going to like this new lease on life after all" she said with a happy sigh

"The heck happened to you though, where's the bratty tsundere that constantly wanted charles's head?" enterprise said, jokingly holding her by her shoulders "WHERE IS SHE?"

Elizabeth just laughed it off "she died of course"

This warm round of laughter gave way for some serious talk

"So you're marrying her, and you've been working around the clock to modernise and strengthen the azur lane alliance forces, AND you somehow got charles to loosen up a little?"

"yes" chris said

"whats next, you're gonna tell me you got enterprise pregnant?"

Both of them looked at elizabeth with a look of "dont laugh"

Elizabeth's mouth drop.

"Y-you actually..."

they both nodded

Elizabeth got up and phoned valiant

"Sis, tell ark royal she's banned from going anywhere near- wait, you mean she- well thats on me, OF COURSE I DIDN'T KNOW, I'VE BEEN DEAD, yes I'll thank the commander for helping ark royal with that problem, NO I DONT WANT TO SEE SARA- wait dont tell her that PLEASE, w-well I-, H-HEY"

and then chris cut the line.

"thanks, anyway, I guess you'll do for now, I'll train myself in the meantime, I have to get used to flying planes" Elizabeth said with a sweat smile

"yeah, and you'll be retaking your throne I take it" Enterprise asked

"no"

both eagle unionites looked at elizabeth as if she was crazy

"I just got reborn, the royal navy has done well enough without me, I'm curious to see how king george V can perform, but I still want servants" Elizabeth said

"of course-" chris began before he got a call.

"oh boy....hey wilson- wait they WHAT? NOW? OKAY FINE I'LL DO IT......damnit I hate good vibes being ruined" chris moaned as he hung up.

"That was my boss's boss's boss's boss, secretary of the navy, they want me to begin test baker, apparently a siren fleet was reported to be nearing hawaii" chris said

"baker? whats that?" elizabeth asked

"an e-cube bomb" chris replied

Elizabeth nodded "my spirit was attracted by an explosion, I figured thats what caused it"

"yes"

Elizabeth nodded again "then I wont keep you, I'll coordinate with sir rodney on counterattacks against sirens once my test is done, see you later" elizabeth said

XXXXXVVVVVXXXXX


Chris sighed as he was on the deck of cvn-65, enterprise hadn't volunteered to drop the bomb, because she had arrows of similar power, but she allowed herself to be the observation room.

"dear, it'll be alright, we're destroying sirens" enterprise said

"yes....just destroying....sirens" chris said, before typing a code into the mainframe.

"27....36..66....84...000" chris typed it in carefully, some royal navy ships came to watch the test results, soon mr orca appeared in front of everyone.

"Nemo, you ready?" chris asked

"yes daddy" Nautilus said, her childish mind unbroken

"alright, before I start, I want to announce that test baker isn't another bomb drop, we'll be testing a submarine-launched ballistic missile, but not like the ones we already used, this one has a hydrogen-ecube warhead in it, is an e-cube ballistic missile, its the folly of man, in the form of its hopes and dreams, this is the weapon that can kill an orochi, but what it may lead to, I cannot predict, with that out of the way, beginning test"

Chris activated the trident button on enterprise's ship.

"Releasing restraint levels 3....2....1... access keys recognised, first key already turned due to prior approval of the protocol for use in testing, second key turned with the resolve to see the test through, turning the final key to unlock the weapon, allowing use of the weapon until the test is complete, or the enemy is annihilated.

Chris saw nautilus launch the polaris missile, it launched high into the air from mr orca's blowhole, disappearing out of sight within seconds

"so... what happens now?" Dante asked

"nothing we can see, not without me tracing it" chris said before jumping out of the bridge and transforming into his jet mode, reaching mach 2 before going into blackbird mode to outrun the missile.

In the night sky, a siren fleet was sailing towards hawaii yet saw nothing but stars.

"You sure we're going the right way?" A cyborg asked

"Positive" a cyborg captain replied, "it IS strange how we haven't seen many ships out here, perhaps the carrier march is spread out too thin" he reasoned.

They sailed forth regardless.

an iguana looked up from its terrarium on the capital ship, it could tell something bad was about to happen.

and sure enough, the warning signs went off

"INCOMING MISSILE-" was all the alerters could say before...well...

           

With the violent explosion came the notification on base radar, target destroyed.

Chris, in blackbird form, sent the lock message.

"Test complete, returning key to locked position until the weapon is needed again"

With that done, he surveyed the damage, the entire fleet was utterly annihilated, including a ballistic missile cruiser.

As he surveyed, he noticed something metallic swimming in the water, like a robot of some kind.

He dropped down to get a closer look, only realising that what he was looking at was a scale on the back of a monstrous , but completely flesh, monster

Chris shuddered, was this a leviathan?

since he had stopped and went back to f-4 mode, he was noticed by the creature, it rose from the depths and eyed him curiously, before licking him with its tongue.

chris connected the dots on what the hell this THING was, and he talked to it.

"Hey there, are you scared?"

The monster let out a small grunt that sounded like a no

"do you want to eat siren ships?"

The monster turned its head in confusion

"do you want to attack tokyo?"

the monster seemed to nod

chris grimaced "of course....well tokyo is good, not for attacking, no attacking friends" chris said

the monster nodded sadly

"but its okay, we got many sirens for you to rampage on, wanna go attack sirens now?"

the monster nodded happily

"lets go then Toshi, thats your name now, toshi, you like that name"

The monster nodded

chris chuckled and got on its back, "we better head back to base, lead the way Toshi" chris said, as toshi swam back towards hawaii.

XXXXVVVVVXXXX

So now that we have time, charles gets the spotlight

His fleet was within communication range of sakura's naval HQ.

"Admiral Koga I am imploring you to hear us out, azur lane can still do good"

"And I agree, but we can handle the sirens fine with air power" Koga replied

"admiral with all due respect, air power isnt your forte..." Charles replied back

"what are you implying?"

"did it save you from enterprise?"

*Citadel hit noise*

"alright then, if you're gonna be like that, if a META or siren attacks us, it'll be up to YOU to handle it" koga then cut the call.

Hakuryuu just grinned "weaklings always run when under fire"

"That they do, they think patton's line of "no poor bastard has ever won a war by dying for his country" is all there is to it, but they forget the second half, "they won by making the other poor bastard die for his country"

Hakuryuu grinned more "well, he's right, but as long as I'm here, none of us are going to die" Hakuryuu said, before august von parseval's planes returned

"just got notification, META coming right at us, its Akagi"

everyone got silent, but serious

"She is a dangerous force, chris told me that she is likely to have taihou META with her, she attacks like a crazed woman, so we shall avoid her fangs and make her get tunnel vision" Charles said

"According to our reports, she has fire tornado capabilities and ferocious airstrikes, so we'll need to split her focus, parseval I want your ME 262s to fire as many rockets as they can at either enemy aircraft or the carriers themselves, shiranui lead the destroyers into the fray against summoned monsters and whatever backup they have, as for the battleship backup, well we have delaware, how are you doing back there?" he asked delaware

"doing fine, my panthers are ready for orders" delaware said, as the eagle union component of this combined fleet rallied behind her.

"okay, once we get a location, we split up and divide attention-" charles paused upon seeing missiles being fired at them, but before he could order a dodge, they struck the fleet, causing a lot of damage.

several ships were unable to fight, and a few look like they were sinking already

Charles nodded to hakuryuu, and in her draconic rage, she entered full battle mode and unleashed all her fighters and bombers at once as cover while parseval and lexington readied fighters.

delaware deployed her full panther wing, and this massive airstrike caused most of the enemy planes to be dropped right out of the sky.

the bombers soared past all opposition and found their targets, two corrupted carriers, and dropped their entire payload.

the racket of explosions was enough to convince charles that the target was crippled.

"wow, that was quick, now I know why chris and you work so well together": Hakuryuu said.

Charles was about to reply when a massive corrosive swamp started to form, dragging most of the fleet under, they fired everywhere trying to avoid being dragged.

"THATS TAIHOU META'S RING OF DEATH" Hakuryuu realised and thought fast, focusing on a trick she learned from musashi.

she breathed deep, and her eyes began to glow with white fire, and soon, she swung her nodachi, summoning a wave of white flame that burned at the grass and muck of the swamp, slicing the corrosion cloud forming, even burning away at it, and slicing in half a giant phoenix that had emerged.

Charles was impressed.

"Dragon's breath strike?" Shiranui asked

"Yep, mine's apparently the strongest in the fleet because white fire is hotter than even blue fire, and I wield such a massive sword" Hakuryuu bragged proudly.

"well, I think we'll leave this up to you then" shiranui said, knowing helping the rest of the fleet came first.

Hakuryuu was a little upset about that but knew shiranui was right.

Delaware and parseval came to help.

"we wont leave you to fight these bitches alone" Delaware said, summoning a saber worthy of general washington himself.

"BLOOD UND IRON" parseval shouted as her dragon roared a challenge.

The corrupted phoenix soon restored itself and was joined by a massive corroded kitsune

"my my, it seems the insects know how to sting" METAkagi said, finally revealing herself

"My swamp should've killed you all" METAihou groaned as she emerged, glitching the air with her presence

"we dont die easily, NOW FACE THE WRATH OF THOSE YOU BETRAYED" Hakuryuu shouted before slicing the air to cut the glitchfield, revealing METAihou's location before her tenrai kais bombed them again.

"agh....why do we always end up facing the top dogs in the yard" METAihou whined

"part of commander charles's lessons that he learned from his commander" Parseval replied as her dragon chewed down on the phoenix's neck.

her ME 262s did wonders ripping through most of METAkagi's shurikens, while the Kitsune tried to help its ally, Hakuryuu tried to launch a dragon's breath slash at it but METAkagi blocked it.

"You will burn as easily as the fires you emit dragon" METAkagi said as she slashed at Hakuryuu, her form taking on a clawed appearance.

Hakuryuu recognised this, Kaga could do it too.

"CHARLES THIS IS GOING TO GET UGLY IF I CANT HOLD HER BACK" Hakuryuu said, "I KNOW YOU'RE THE BOSS BUT YOU NEED TO TRUST ME" she shouted before she had to parry a slash from METAkagi, it was becoming clear that while METAihou was dangerous, METAkagi was even more so.

"I just dont get it" Hakuryuu said as she kicked METAkagi in the gut, "You had friends, family, YOU WERE EVEN LOVED, but yet all you cared about was a manipulative shikikan" Hakuryuu growled as she punched METAkagi in the face

"HE WAS WORTH MORE TO ME THAN YOU COULD EVER HOPE TO THINK INSECT" METAkagi said before flinging shurikens at speeds Hakuryuu couldn't match, and she started to trip up.

"I know what it means to have someone you love dearly you piece of shit, I HAVE CHARLES DONT I, YOU COULD'VE HAD WHAT I DID, AND YET YOU THREW IT AWAY LIKE YOU ALWAYS DID, TAIHOUS BACK AT BASE, RECOVERING FROM WHAT HAPPENED, AND YOU'RE HERE FALLING INTO DARKNESS BECAUSE YOU DIDNT ACCEPT THE ROPE" Hakuryuu practically roared before slicing one of METAkagi's tails off, a brutal blow.

METAihou chuckled "wow, all that and its over this quick?"

Hakuryuu didn't listen, she just sliced one of METAihou's arms off.

"you talk too much swamp whore" Hakuryuu said, but as she raiseed her Nodachi, she felt a chilling presence, a presence she remembered from fighting Kaga for training.

".......oh no" she readied her nodachi

"whats the matter?" Delaware asked, but a slash in the air that destroyed all her panthers gave a clear idea of what was going on.

"We sakurans have spirit animals that allow us to channel mystical powers, but that also means we can merge with them, and well.....GET AWAY NOW" Hakuryuu shouted as METAkagi roared herself upright, but she didn't look that human anymore, her skin was covered in fur, and she had a snout face.

"Its her fucking Koto form" Hakuryuu said before she turned partly dragon to match.

METAkagi however did spend a second idle, overcome with rage and with her new form that grew back the slashed tail, she easily knocked delaware out of the fight with just a slash that summoned torpedoes.

Parseval was next, but Hakuryuu jumped in the way, clawing at METAkagi's face, scratching her with firey burns

Delaware, although now crippled, was in shock from seeing shapeshifting like this, and despite hakuryuu not looking as animalistic, she seemed to be winning away, especially now that she could rbeathe white hot flames that kept METAkagi from attacking anyone else.

"just like you to lose yourself, and they claim I'm the aggressive one" Hakuryuu thought to herself as she tore through METAkagi's shurikens and summoned bombs.

"GRRR, JUST DIE" METAkagi growled as she tried to slash Hakuryuu's neck, but missed

"Owari da" Hakuryuu said plainly as she delivered a decisive fire breath that burned away METAkagi's transformation, reducing her to her normal kansen state.

as METAkagi laid on the water, she could see Hakuryuu readying her Nodachi.

"any last words?" Hakuryuu said, but as she moved to swing, her nodachi dissappeared from her hands.

"w-wha-what W-WHERE DID IT GO" Hakuryuu panicked back to her normal form desperately trying to find her Nodachi, but failed, she frantically scanned the area, which left her open to a bombing run that knocked her out.

METAihou giggled darkly, having made it disappear, she made it re-appear as she healed up METAkagi

"and now the insects have no guardian~" METAihou said coldly as METAkagi got back up ready to kill.

as the fleet looked on in horror, somebody piped up.

"HEY YOU TOO MAGGOTS, AFRAID OF A REAL CHALLENGE?"

It was charles, holding up a big gun.

"a challenge? from you? dont make me laugh" METAkagi sneered

"Not me, enterprise" Charles said

"THE GREY GHOST? HERE?" METAkagi glared

"Nope, she's back at base, waiting to finally put an end to your sorry asses" Charles said.

METAkagi's kistune spirit growled at him, but charles held firm with his gun.

"You....." METAkagi glared, METAihou tried to  get her attention but failed

"unless you're too scared to face her, even if I manage to convince her to go at you alone, what are you afraid of the grey ghost?" Charles taunted

METAkagi fucking bought it.

"NO, I WILL CRUSH HER JUST LIKE I DID EVERYONE ELSE" she proclaimed before racing away in the direction of azur lane's naval base.

Charles then turned to METAihou "looks like its just you and me, I suggest you go and save your friend"

"you cant trick me, you have nothing left" METaihou said.

Charles sighed and fired his gun, which shot through METAihou's body and split open her stomach, making her vomit black fluid as she desperately tried to fix her wound.

"This here gun is something chris cooked up for my marines in case we ran into corroded humans, loaded with shells that contain explosive powder saturated with Ɛ radiation from enterprise, nothing we shoot ever gets up again" charles taunted, METAihou coughing.

"You...bastard...we'll get you next time" METAihou warned before she fled in a portal.

Charles sighed as he picked up hakuryuu, giving her the nodachi that was dropped.

"t-thanks" she said before kissing him.

Charles didnt blush but did smile "you're welcome haki....but we're not out of the woods, yet, we're going to convince sakura of the alliance some way or another"

"why didnt you just shoot them both?" Hakuryuu asked

"I would've died before getting a critical shot, and besides, this isn't my fight to end" Charles said before activating his communicator

"Hey chris, its me, tell me, is the grey ghost able to fight?"

"Yeah, what's up?"

XXXXVVVVVXXXXX

Enterprise was chilling in her captain's quarters with chris when chris erupted.

"YOU WHAT!? Okay yes but....OKAY DICK MOVE THOUGH.....fine I'll deploy her, yes you're right, this nightmare does need to end, and yes I have the ballistic missile ready in case enty fails, yes I tested it thats why I said it, by the way test able went well too" chris said before hanging up.

he turned to enterprise with a face an eagle would love to be named after.

"Enty......Akagi's coming for us" chris said

Enterprise stood up straight and turned serious.

"I assure you dear I can fight" Enterprise said

Chris smiled internally, but externally kept a stern face

"Then prepare to engage, we're going into this together"

Enterprise nodded, and chris issued a general order

"This is christian J wood, all kansen and humans are to return to their dorms and prepare the defenses, the dawn of destiny is here"

Chapter Text

2130, military time, pearl harbor, azur lane

The drones and high speed recon jets reported in, chris, who had somehow arrived without showing off his new pet, was back in the command room on CVN-65, the woman of the ship was on deck ready for orders.

Yorktown, Hornet, Wasp, Hammann, Northampton, and Essex had fully deployed in case enterprise needed help.

Queen Elizabeth and Audacious were ready with whatever other royal navy carriers were still around, Kaga, Taihou, and Tosa were with Shinano, waiting for the order to be given.

The third fleet had taken a protective stance around the main islands, they knew the attack was coming.

The report showed the position of the incoming METAs

"Thats the Akagi and Taihou META carriers alright" Chris said, examining the recon data.

"Shall we prepare to fly?" Schultz asked

"yes" chris said.

"I can feel them coming....why not send a ballistic missile their way?" Hornet asked

"because we dont need to" Chris said as he turned to enterprise

"Enty, I know what this means for you, akagi is all yours" Chris said affirmingly

Enterprise breathed slowly, calming herself

"I really wish it didn't have to come to this" Enterprise admitted

"I know..." chris said

he got off the bride and jumped down to her, assuming his mech suit's blackbird mode.

"When I start flying, whip out your bow" chris said

Enterprise nodded

Chris then transformed into the SR-71 and took flight, enterprise despawned her rigging to form her bow, and every other archer did the same.

Chris than raced towards the enemy fleet.

XXXVVVVXXX

"I told you I can handle this myself" METAkagi said, glaring at METAihou

"And I told you that you cant, enterprise isn't alone, you forget we were turned back by a battleship that can summon cherry blossom typhoons, and the eagle union third fleet is there, chris is also not a commander to be trifled with" METAihou said, before glaring at another carrier.

"why YOU are here is a different story"

"I said you'd need my help to take out azur lane at the source" Compiler opined, her MK V armada readying their missiles

METAihou sighed "you're lucky, we're not going to kill you right now"

"You couldn't kill me even if you tried" Compiler noted.

"Enough talk, once we get in range, I will turn their waters red with their blood!" METAkagi proclaimed.

METaihou grimaced, though she had managed to recover from the shot charles inflicted on her, she couldn't help but thing they were about to go in way over their heads, the helicopters on their deck and some special queens didn't help her jitters.

And then their radar detected something moving towards them at mach speed

"a missile? no, this is chris we're talking about" Compiler said, "he'd send hundreds...."

The radar then lost sight of it, how...

Up in the sky, chris slowed down a little, allowing enterprise to access the coordinates he was at.

with one order, "FIRE!" every archer on base unloaded their arrows.

The arrows raced across the water and, despite the long distance they were traveling, the arrows all struck the invading force on point, causing a cataclysmic explosion.

METAkagi and METAihou avoided most of the hits, but compiler's mass produced armada had taken the full brunt, and the explosions sent dozens of ships straight down.

"*cough cough* DAMNIT!" METAihou screeched, "COMPILER HOW THE HELL DID YOU NOT BLOCK THAT?"

"I'm a siren elite, not an arbiter, besides observer would've been able to tell you"

"No I can't" Observer said, uncloaking herself.

Compiler rolled her eyes.

"well guess that settles that, I'm launching every plane I can" Compiler said before hundreds of jets emerged from the surviving queens, attack helicopters too, before racing towards azur lane.

the METAs followed suit

XXXVVVXXX

Chris had returned to base and immediately went inside mr orca who submerged.

"I'll command from here nemo" Chris said, Nautilus nodding and readying her torpedoes and missiles.

"This is chris to the Eagle Union third fleet and all available carriers on base, RELEASE THE FLOCKS" he ordered through a radio.

The carriers all nodded, and in a well-coordinated motion, every single carrier released their squadrons, the attack aircraft and fighters taking the front, the bombers going behind, another massive dogfight was ready to be had.

"admiral, thats a lot of planes" Elizabeth said as her own jets flew

"what do you expect? I even have air force bombers at the ready in case the sirens get close, we had to build a massive amount of air fields in the event of a massive attack just like this" chris said as the fighters began engaging, enterprise's super phantoms leading the fight, they took down dozens of planes without a scratch.

"enterprise is here....just as you thought" METAihou said as she noticed the VF-101 insignia on some panthers that shot down a few attack helicopters before they could fire

"And she's still at the top of her game" Observer...observed....

"I hear she's got a parasite in her" Compiler replied dryly

"another insect~" METAkagi said as she threw shurikens at enterprise's panthers, slicing them up.

Enterprise glared "there you are" she said before she deployed A-3 skywarriors.

the skywarriors raced towards METAKagi and despite the gunfire and AA measuresm they did their bombing run successfully, ripping holes into METAkagi's rigging and making her even more angry.

"BLAST YOU, BLAST YOU ALL" she summoned her kitsune spirit and had it attack as many aircraft as it could, METAihou followed suit with her corrupted phoenix.

Back at the base, the carriers were realising they were starting to fall to the numbers game.

"we're killing at a rate of 10-1" Chkalov noted, "but they keep replacing the ten with twenty!"

Chris nodded, "this isn't going to go well if we keep this up" he then nodded towards nautilus who launched a volley of proximity missiles that flew towards the enemy aircraft and detonated in the middle of them, repelling those they didnt destroy into other planes, causing massive airborne carnage to fly everywhere.

"damnit" Compiler grimaced, "its what I feared, they have an arsenal of missiles, deploy your helicopters and prepare anti-missile action" Compiler told the METAs

METAkagi didn't listen and instead lunged her fox forward, it raced at supernatural speeds towards the base.

Chris detected it on radar and talked to enterprise

"ENTERPRISE, ENGAGE THE FOX"

Enterprise fired an arrow that show the fox spirit in its leg, causing it to fall into the ocean, its body surfacing, alive, but in pain.

METAihou saw this and tried to have her phoenix help, but Essex shot it down with a crossbow shot

"Nice work Essex" chris said, making essex grin.

As METAkagi broke formation to tend to her fox, chris knew this was time, he was shot out of mr orca's blowhole in full armor and he landed next to enterprise

He stared at every carrier in the lineup.

"pull your planes back, its time to unleash the reaper"

every carrier nodded and pull their planes back, despawning some to make it quicker.

enterprise silently raced forward to face METAkagi directly, and chris followed suit.

METAkagi despawned her kistune as soon as she saw the grey ghost, grim flew above enterprise.

"So, you finally show yourself grey ghost" METAkagi said, bearing her claws readying for a fight.

"I wasn't hiding you bitch" Enterprise said as she raised her bow.

"shame you didnt chase after me, I could've killed you sooner~" METAkagi said, both ships began circling each other like lions

"I do regret not chasing you, I wanted to finish what I started, end the nightmare that has plagued me since 1941" Enterprise said coldly

"Kaga knew better, the cranes knew better, the 2nd carrier division knew better, they let their hate die, but you let it keep you alive, you've burned everything around you, and for WHAT?"

"THEY WERE TOO WEAK TO MATTER IN THE END THEN" METAkagi said, her tails flaring up.

"Then I guess I'm the only one that matters that isn't the man that manipulated you huh?" Enterprise jabbed

"Y-you wont matter when I'm done here" METAkagi said, getting increasingly angry

"oh you'll be done alright" Chris said.

"when I get through with her, YOU'RE NEXT" METAkagi said

METAIhou and compiler showed up.

"Akagi NO, you know she has the advantage, don't-" METAkagi slapped METAihou away

"I DONT NEED YOU TO TELL ME WHEN TO QUIT, I WILL NEVER QUIT, I WILL DESTROY THE GREY GHOST MYSELF" METAkagi grew fangs and her ears grew somewhat longer.

Enterprise sighed, "which one?"

Chris chuckled

METAkagi tried to slash at her but enterprise dodged easily.

Compiler took this time to attack Enterprise, but enterprise dodged it again, her passive being quite annoying.

Chris couldn't help but smile.

But soon he stopped, and his smile turned into a serious look.

"ENTERPRISE!"

Enterprise smirked, "yes dear?"

"I want you to hear my orders and follow them to the letter, your scythe shall stain the red sun crimson, I want to know my enemies by the color of the stains you leave on them, RELEASE YOUR RESTRAINTS, AWAKEN THE GRIM REAPER WITHIN, THE REAPER THAT PROTECTS THE FREE, THE ONE THAT TAKES THE TYRANTS, VENTURE FOR-"

"Oh you are just ANNOYING" Compiler said as she spawned a plane but chris shot it down with his vulcan gun

"Okay screw it, enterprise, go for a walk"

Enterprise exhaled, and grim put on a shroud.

"I am, the hero of eagle union, and the reaper of their enemies"

As she said those words, insider her wisdom cube, a lock began to unlock itself

"I am legend, ready on arrival, the first, the finest, eight reactors, nothing is faster!"

With this, the lock was opened at last, and enterprise's hair began glowing white.

an unnatural mist began forming all around her, and soon it rose into the sky, covering the area around them, the outer mist began strengthening, solidifying, lightning broke out, the winds began blowing.

rain fell in torrents

Before her enemies realised it, compiler and METaihou were blown away, leaving METAkagi alone in a rapidly growing typhoon, an actual typhoon, radiating nuclear/e-cube energy, as it expanded, many siren ships found themselves being torn apart by the ripping waves and high winds, lightning destroying many outright, compiler herself was being flung around like it was nothing.


But yet, in the eye, things were calm.


The typhoon had grown to cover a good chunk of hawaii, yet only the sirens and METAs nearby could feel it, for the rest, it seemed to be just dark cloud cover and maybe a thunderstorm but nothing cataclysmic.

METakagi realised she was now alone with the grey ghost, and she attacked Enterprise without thinking twice, but enterprise dodged again.

METAkagi glared and attacked again, yet again Enterprise dodged.


XXXVVVXXX

The JTWC had noticed the growing storm.

"boss, reports are saying this hurricane has one-minute sustained winds of 190 MPH" one analayst said

"Thats impossible, no storm has had winds that fierce!" the boss said

XXXVVVXXX

Oh but it was real, the winds had completely eradicated every siren aircraft in its range, leaving only compiler and the two metas left

Chris was in the eye on a small picket ship that enterprise had spawned for him, he was watching the battle as they left the eye, but he dared not pursue.

METAkagi threw shurikens at Enterprise but Enterprise fired CIWS machine guns that destroyed them.

"WHAT MAGIC IS THIS!?" METAkagi growled as she saw those guns destroy some bombers she spawned

"Eagle union magic, can't you tell?" Enterprise replied coldly as she fired sea sparrow missiles that ripped through METAkagi's summoned rigging, and also struck her fox spirit that she summoned

METAkagi spawned helicopters that fired missiles and rockets back, combined with machine gun fire that stopped most of enterprise's planes.

Enterprise kept her focus up, readying her bow and firing it to detonate midair, causing a violent explosion that knocked METAkagi back.

XXXVVVVXXX

Compiler and METAihou meanwhile had paddled out of the storm by some miracle.

"*cough cough* what the HELL is THAT" METAihou spat out

"I have no idea" Compiler admitted, "no kansen of this timeline, not even satsuma, could deliver a gale this large and strong"

"If I could get in contact with bon she could sort this out" METAihou said

"No, it wont work, bon homme richard is strong, sure, but she's inferior to this, there's only one META I know that can rival this power, and-" Compiler was cut off mid-sentence

"she's right behind you" a cold disturbed voice replied

both ships turned to see Alterprise staring right at them with a death glare.

XXXVVVXXX

back in the maelstrom, METAkagi was panting as Enterprise kept her assault up.

They had been fighting for god knows how long, but Enterprise hadn't taken a single bit of damage, while METAkagi was gasping for air due to the effects of the typhoon.

"I-impossible, you were always strong, but you're *cough* so much more... *cough* how!?"

"Because someone genuinely loved me and helped me prevent my origination, while you fell into the hole of despair" Enterprise said as she noticed grim scrapping with a METAkagi's fox spirit.

"*cough* I can still kill you, I haven't begun to fi-" she stopped mid-sentence as enterprise readied a pure white arrow, but didn't fire at her, no, she fired at the giant fox, which was obliterated upon impact in an explosion that looked like a second sun.

"NOOOOO" METAkagi rushed to her fox's aid, but there was no fox left, nothing but rapidly purified fur.

Grim flew back to Enterprise as METAkagi grew completely mad.

The explosion could be seen from outside the storm, but nobody dared contact enterprise or chris to find out what happened.

Back inside, METAkagi abandoned all pretenses and assumed her full koto form, before lunging at Enterprise who responded with missile strikes, dropping her bow to focus on evasion and fast attacks.

But after 16 seconds of nonstop dodging, a slash connected, and it hurt Enterprise.

Kotokagi grinned at her maliciously, and kept the attack, now having the brute force and speed to overcome enterprise's dodging ability, but just as her koto form got her second wind, the wind already there was still blowing, but it was dwindling, a sign that she wasn't going to be able to keep it going forever.

Alterprise noticed this but did not move, and Compiler tried to slink away.

"You're not going anywhere antiochus" Alterprise said, summoning a gravity well to lock compiler in place as she did the same to METAihou

soon chris, despite being in the eye, noticed that he could pick up signals right outside the storm, and flew to investigate.

when he touched down, he saw Alterprise

"Hello there" he said

"Rear Admiral christian" Alterprise said with a rare smile

METAihou and Compiler both felt their faces grow pale.

"observer where the hell are you?" compiler wondered

XXXVVVXXX

Observer was back in the storm, enduring it until she could fire a shot at Enterprise, which hit grim instead, knocking him into the water.

Enterprise glared before her eyes began turning white, then they started flaming white.

"Alright then, OWARI DA" she said as she fired a full missile assault that detonated some of observer's cannons and hit Kotokagi hard, burning her torso and arms.

Before either of them could react, Enterprise channeled energy around her until, with a single swipe of her arm, F-4 Phantom II's emerged out of thin air and fired laser-guided bombs on Kotokagi and Observer, before observer could react, the bombs and the arrow destroying her rigging completely, forcing her to flee

"damnit she was just playing with us, I should've brought enforcers with me" she groaned before dropping herself into a mirror sea

Kotokagi meanwhile was feeling the sting, and soon, despite her pyrokinetic slashes, Enterprise was able to pick up her bow for one final white arrow that blew up right in Kotokagi's chest, but this caused the storm to fade into nothing but dark cloud cover, revealing the wreckage all around them.

After the burning, METAkagi realised she was back to being fully human.

And Enterprise was approaching her with a scythe.

*death bells begin ringing, I*

*II*

"N-no" *III* "not like this, I can't, not now" *IV*

*V*

*VI*

METAkagi began trying to run, trying to save herself, but tripped on the hull of a sinking queen, only to realise that it wasnt a siren's hull, but enterprises, she had summoned it without warning.

*VII*

Enterprise's scythe began scrapping against the deck, like an eagle's talon

*VIII*

"P-please, don't do this, think of what your dearest would think" METAkagi begged.

"You didn't" Enterprise replied as she raised her scythe.

*IX*

With one final scream, METAkagi found her body being sliced down the middle, corroded blood spurting out of her body as the two sides fell onto the deck, her origin cube collapsing in two with her.

Both sides dissolved into flakes of nothing, flying into the sky like ash from a volcano.

*X*

The storm completely vanished as Enterprise turned on her communicator

"Its over"

Chris replied back "I'll make the announcement myself, head back to base and wait for me, and....just take it easy"

Enterprise nodded and sailed back to base

Chris turned to Alterprise

Alterprise gave him a look, and then smiled somewhat

"Thats enough proof, as of now, the Ashes are your allies"

Chris nodded as METAihou and Compiler were released from their wells, compiler not moving, waiting to see what happened next, but a sidewinder shot to the head knocked her lights out.

"Y-you will PAY for this DEARLY" METAihou glared as she made a glitchy portal, monsters started emerging from it.

"Sorry, thats a tariff I'm not willing to pay" Chris said as he sliced them all with his sword before turning it towards METAihou.

"Game over"

*Slice*

Chapter Text

It was an interesting day.

Very interesting in fact.

Enterprise had returned from battle, looking like she was questioning her life, as such, the first thing anyone did was hug her, and assure her.

"You did what you had to"

"Just rest now"

"You will be forgiven"

Those words were said by her well meaning phoenix, who had dismissed her from active patrol on grounds of she needed to relax.

This had gone without incident, but this meant her commander couldn't leave base, since she felt more relaxed with him around.

Everyone had backed his words up, even Amagi, who was now talking with her.

"I know you didn't really want to kill her, but...you freed her soul from the monster that had claimed it, and I thank you for that" Amagi said.

Enterprise hummed in acknowledgement, but she didn't really move.

Chris came back with some fine herbal tea that enterprise drank slowly.

Amagi frowned, she turned to chris

"Do you know if she was like this after midway?"

Chris sat down and nodded "she AND hornet, but this is different"

Enterprise turned and spoke

"It is....I've only felt like this once, after santa cruz, when dad retired, but that was grief and a feeling of being responsible for the deaths of those that weren't my fault......I feel I just killed akagi for good, without seeing a chance at redemption" she said, looking at her coffee mug.

Amagi and Chris sighed in sadness

Amagi spoke first "Enterprise, tell me, how does it feel different than the others that you killed for good?"

This was a sticking point, Enterprise's body count was massive, but many of them had been revived, she thought death was permanent even for her friends, the idea of bringing someone back was still hard to believe because so much could go wrong.

"Because Akagi willingly let herself become what I killed, you will never get to see your sister again, even if she was brought back" Enterprise said

Amagi instinctively pulled her into a friendly hug.

Chris nodded to her, she knew what that meant, and he did too.

"Enterprise, from someone that was in hornet's shoes, assuming what we're thinking right now, no, we wouldn't have died to save ourselves the pain of seeing our siblings fall deeper, she let herself be killed to save you the pain of seeing her crippled, she likely thought long and hard on what'd hurt you less, even after knowing you'd be down another sister, its never an easy or a good choice, I made a selfish choice back then, I regret it now, I regret it even more knowing what happened to Akagi despite Kaga's presence, sometimes I feel I killed her long before you ever did" Amagi said

Enterprise turned to face her "Its not....just that......I didn't have to kill hornet myself, but my....."

Chris interrupted her "No parent should have to bury their child, and the older sibling shouldn't have to bury the younger one either, I never asked him what it felt like, you just know"

Enterprise nodded "I understand his pain a bit better now, but it doesn't help, I still reaped her to her very soul without thinking of finding a way to save her"

Chris sighed "Enty....they revived yorktown with data from another yorktown, I got lizzie back with data from another elizabeth, it may seem cold and uncaring of me to say, but akagi CAN still have redemption"

Amagi spoke up "if you can find a way to bring her back so I could be a better sister, I'd be happy, but I still forgive you both"

Enterprise smiled a little "well.....there is something else I wanted to say....I'm worried because....I did this while..." she gestured to her belly.

Amagi nodded "I can assure you it didnt affect the baby, you barely took damage and the stress didn't affect miyuki" Amagi said.

Enterprise realised a change of conversation could likely help her so she asked more questions

"should I expect bleeding, vomiting, anything like that?"

Amagi giggled "Expect to be more tired and require more food mostly, oh and when the baby arrives, expect to be in for a lot of pain, and please dont blame your future husband for it" she said

Enterprise nodded "you think I should continue being in reserve?"

"At this point, I'd say yes, but leave base defense to the third fleet and others, one good gut shot and..." Amagi's face darkened

Enterprise nodded in understanding.

"But, you're doing great, you're being responsible, and I can tell you're well cared for" Amagi said gesturing to Chris who was taking some notes

"I've stopped being a stud to make sure she's okay, I havent laid anyone in some time because I want to make sure she's okay" Chris said

Amagi couldn't help but laugh at this "I figured you'd want to have more children"

Chris chuckled "we'll discuss that AFTER this one comes out, though I have to ask, did you get checked out?"

Amagi nodded "it was negative, I assure you it was negative for everyone else, though I suspect kaga wished it wasn't"

Chris sighed "I kinda guessed"

Enterprise chuckled "yeah she's been sniffing you out a lot"

Chris smiled bitterly but then remembered something "ah shit I have to convene the commanders, see ya later dear" Chris said

Enterprise waved "try not to kill anyone" she called out

Chris smiled and ran out to his meeting.

XXXXVVVVXXXX

Thomas rodney was with KGV and Elizabeth, Dante showed up with Roma and Marco Polo, Schultz had Bismarck and Tirpitz, Asmiov had Soyuz and Nakhimov, Maximilian had richelieu and jean bart.

Satsuma and Yamato were here as well.

Chris was joined by Illinois and Saratoga

He got out a map of the pacific and a map of the atlantic.

"Okay, thank you all for coming, the carrier hai has done magnificently so far, but the advent of the orochis has threatened us with near annihilation, I have the polaris missile to help but its no solid answer to the threat the orochis pose, enty had to power up to take down ONE last time we met, and that was when it was lightly escorted" Chris said

Charles was missing from this because of reasons.

Dante spoke up "Shouldn't it be a simple matter of building kansen that can take out an Orochi?"

"It isn't" Schultz said "Enterprise's record shows that any rainbow ship could take an Orochi out with some luck, but despite our arsenal, they're protected by guided missile vessels, far superior to the models we've seen before, and tons more of the models we're used to fighting against, a carrier can only do so much"

Asimov and Nakhimov nodded "Its a difficult case, the Orochis have ballistic missiles that could easily threaten our bases across the planet, comrade chris likely thought about that long ago"

Chris nodded "CIWS systems have missile defense in mind, the laser cannon variant is specifically designed to outpace any missile coming towards us, as soon as we detect one, we can just shoot it with a laser and stop it, but we dont have nearly enough for a solid defense"

Saratoga elaborated "of the few kansen that have them, they all admit that it takes a lot of energy, we'd need a wisdom cube energy reactor to fire a laser with the longevity and power to take out a ballistic missile, and due to reasons....we cant exactly build that as fast as we'd like"

Schultz nodded "and our anti-missile defense is a good start, we have V-3 and V-4 missiles that can fly fast enough to intercept many enemy missiles, but we dont have a ship that can fire them effectively, which leads us back to chris here"

Chris smiled "we need an arsenal ship, a guided missile battleship who's main weapon is missiles, and lots of them, I've already begun the construction of such a vessel in washington state with approval from alexander wilson, under the logic that an arsenal ship can rely solely on its missiles for offensive pressure, and thus, allow for greater focus on applying stronger missiles to it"

"and where do we all come in with this?" Maximilian asked

"well you can build your own if you want, but I'm here to encourage you to do something else, namely speed up the construction of whatever superships your nations are building" Chris said

Rodney and Schultz nodded without hesitation

"we'll jet ourselves over to our nations ASAP" Rodney said

Maximilian was hesitant "we....we could just rely on AAMs.....you seem to have a good defense with that already"

Chris shook his head "ballistic missiles often leave earth's atmosphere, we'll only detect them once they're upon us, unless we're at the missile launch site"

Dante brought up a question "if everything we have can be bypassed by these ballistics, why dont you just do what your time did?"

Chris froze a little, but shook his head "they didnt plan on fighting antiochus, we didn't even know they existed, even then, people argued aircraft carriers were becoming obsolete because of missiles" Chris said, "like battleships were obsolete because aircraft carriers could do their job better and cost less"

Jean bart growled at that notion "yet you're proving battleships aren't completely useless"

Chris nodded "but so is everyone here, my time didnt have kansen, but even if they did, they likely would scrap battleships anyway, because of short sighted long vision, oxymoronic sure but my point is I have the benefit of neither foresight or hindsight, but theoretics"

Maximilian cocked his head in confusion "are you saying that you're differing because of basic pondering, like your time had the right idea anyway but you want to try things a bit differently?"

Chris nodded "electronic warfare came in real handy against the sirens and still does, but obviously we dont have the tech for easy electronic warfare"

Roma interrupted "but we do.....you do anyway"

Illinois, Jean Bart, Richelieu, Sovetsky Soyuz, and Bismarck looked at her like she spilled a secret.

Roma looked offended "what? he has to admit it sometime, the sirens are using tactics from his era, its catching up quick"

Chris sighed "you're right, I will have to admit it, because if we're going to build superships, I'll have to use my hypership, I hope to never use it, and I'm technically not allowed by eagle union military law to launch missiles willy nilly anyway, so before of this comes to light, I need to talk with the armed forces command"

Everyone stared at him, but he kept his face firm and talked to charles using the room's hpone system

"Hey chuck how are things going?"

"Not too bad, thanks to you the sakura empire has agreed to continue being a part of azur lane and will send a commander to the base very shortly, and approved our access to kure, we'll be able to set up shop there quickly, I suggest getting the sakura ships out here fast"

Chris nodded "well chuck, I'd like to, but the orochis are out as I warned you they would"

Charles nodded "Alright, I'll patch you through to the joint chiefs and the secretaries of the armed forces shortly, whatever you do, do not let them think you can get by with anything less than absolute missile clearance"

Chris nodded "will do sir"

The call cut with a salute

XXXXVVVVXXXX

The joint chiefs were soon on the line, with the secretaries of the navy, army, and air force there as well

"Alright sirs, I am reporting this because it is a global crisis in the making and I need to ask for clearance, but the sirens have deployed fleets across the pacific, atlantic, and potentially other oceans as well, lynchpinned by a capital ship class called the orochi, a class of guided missile aviation battleships that carry ballistic missiles capable of atomic bomb sized explosions" Chris said/

The secretaries and the joint chiefs looked at each other.

"Are you SURE they're as dangerous as you imply?"

Chris replied with a fax.

The fax message said it best, it was a report on an incident from his world where a ballistic missile assault reduced the sahara desert to fused glass

the chairman addressed chris

"I like how direct you are, I'll defer to the president on this, we'll send you our response soon, dismissed"

And the call ended.

Chris sighed as he turned to Illinois, he had decided to make the call from her ship so it could be completely encrypted

"What now dad?"

"What now? we wait for their response"

XXXXXVVVVVXXXXX

"Mr president, we have a report from rear admiral christian wood, apparently the sirens have deployed several ballistic missile warships with aviation capability, with evidence of hundreds of guided missile ships escorting them among thousands of lower class models" Chairman Lemnitzer said

The president looked at Lemnitzer with some worry, "I do not want to drag this country into a war it doesn't need to be in, nor do I want to give anyone a blank check to start world war III, and I ESPECIALLY dont want that premier to take advantage of this"

Lemnitzer nodded "If you refuse I could have cuba be invaded using false flags as justification"

The president glared at him "you do that and I'm bringing omar back"

Lemnitzer glared back "you wouldnt"

The president just looked at him dead in the eye and nodded

Lemnitzer angrily left the room.

The president sighed and made a call "NASA, get on that project I want", he then made another call to every leader of a nation involved with azur lane

"This is president kennedy to all other members of the naval alliance known as azur lane, sirens have released a global-level threat in the form of fleets, over"

XXXVVVXXX

Chris had begun sweating in anxiety, waiting for a response

Enterprise, Saratoga, and Illinois had come to keep him company.

"Come on commander have some rest"

"You dont get it Sara, I'm having to wait for about 100 different world politicians to approve something so around 30 different commands can agree to tell a bunch of 5 stars to tell me I can go ahead" Chris said, "there's a very high chance I wont get ANYTHING" chris said, pacing back and forth.

enterprise was eating some salad and fiber while Illinois looked at her dad in worry.

and then, a message arrived, chris immediately got up to read it, but his eyes widened in horror.

"what is it dad?" Illinois said

"It worked too good" Chris said as he reached to the P.A. system for everyone in azur lane.

"This is rear admiral christian J wood to all forces in azur lane, as of 5 minutes ago, the joint naval brass has received an order from the governments of every nation involved in azur lane, in that as of said 5 minutes ago, azur lane and the strategic missile commands of every nation within have been told to go to DEFCON 2, I repeat, azur lane is at DEFCON 2."

Chapter Text

Thomas Rodney landed at a shipyard in jolly old london, audacious let him rest for a bit before joining him on his visit.

"Top of the morning commodore" a dockworker said

"Thank you chap" Rodney said before staring at a massive battleship

"The lion I take it?"

"That'd be correct sir, 420mm turrets and experimental flak rocket launchers, to carry more flak in a rocket with an automated fuse to explode when the proximity sensor is tripped so to speak, should be worth azur lane's time" The dockworker said as the hull's deck was being worked on.

"I would prefer sea dart missiles but if it works, it works"

"we're adding more advanced sea darts to it, somethin' about eagle union's rear admiral wondering if we could test a missile that exploded into an electric field, apparently his admiralty isn't being cooperative with the idea"

Thomas laughed, "This is true, he's had quite a lot of trouble, they've wanted him to surrender the old ships and have them be scrapped, I can relate"

The dockworker sighed "they don't appreciate what the old girls do for us, but thats irrelevant, sir, I need you to follow me, there's something I want you to see"

Thomas did follow him, and when they got to an observation tower, he was stunned.

There was a battleship well over 900 feet long, a massive superstructure, four barbettes for main battery cannons, dozens of rocket launchers with some SAM launchers, and enough room for a ballistic missile launcher

"What...what the bloody hell...I never requested this" Thomas said

"I know, but rear admiral wood said queen elizabeth wanted an old friend revived, one of our eccentric designers apparently was able to build this massive thing within mere months after we harvested tons of siren metal, and well, we've decided to finish her, even added a polaris missile launcher to her"

Thomas saw a 4-gun turret being fitted onto the barbette

"That's...that's 420mm too..." Thomas said in shock

"Yep, cost us plenty of sterling to make sure it worked right" the dockworker said "its about time you woke her up"

Kiel, Iron blood

In the misty waters of kiel, Schultz makes his landing, right in front of a harbor full of ships under construction

"Herr commandant, nice to see you" a corporal said

"Nice to meet you too corporal, now has the FW 260 been made into a military design?" Schultz asked

"Ja, it has the jet engines we've designed and will be on the richtoffen class carriers soon enough" The corporal reported

"Gut, now about my battlecruiser..."

"Already being made" The corporal replied, pointing to a battlecruiser that was being fitted with its 420mm guns and 2 sets of quad 622 torpedo mounts

"I see you augmented my design to include stronger torpedoes, but where are the rocket launchers?" Schultz asked

"We're fitting them as well, but due to some new information it was delayed due to the installation of the integrated combat system and the CIWS modules, including an Ɛ-vulcan module" The corporal explained

"what's an Ɛ-vulcan module?" Schultz asked

"We were able to get some information on the minigun commandant wood uses in his phantom jet mode, and we figured by giving this battlecruiser an Ɛ-cube reactor, we could use its energy to make an anti-air minigun that fires charged bullets of energy at light speeds" the corporal said

Schultz looked up in amazement, seeing Niimi getting her miniguns fitted out made him feel proud of his country, and then he saw a giant white ship being refitted

"Isn't that Tirpitz?"

"Affirmative, and the black ship a few blocks down is bismarck's" the corporal pointed down the row to a massive black beast of ship getting its guns replaced

"What in hel's domain are you doing?" Schultz asked

"Simply replacing their 380mm guns with 480mm guns, same 4x2 scheme but with stronger, more durable shells, same AA suite with secondaries, and Tirpitz is being given the 700mm torpedoes as Bismarck requested, I have to say they're pretty durable" the corporal mentioned

"I see, so...what about project 45?"

The corporal pointed to a MASSIVE ship that looked well over 1100 feet long and had the armament to match, including 10 dual 700mm torpedo tubes, this thing looked monstrous

"THAT is the 45!?" Schultz said in shock

"Yep, its the largest battleship we'll be able to make, her 530mm cannons were hard to fit on, but she's ready to wake up, I hope you know what you're doing"

"I do....let's do this"

Both commanders in both ports then walked down to the massive ships they were going to awaken.

For Thomas, he brought an old banner and an old standard, alongside a bell, he brought the 10 wisdom cubes needed, they combined into one massive cube

Schultz brought an old kingdom's flag and an iron eagle, with an old volute, slightly rusty.

with the same 10 wisdom cubes as per tradition, he let them combine.

both commanders then touched the cube, and they resonated with the ship hulls around them.

Soon, several reports of 2 massive atomic sized explosions began pouring in from science stations across europa, from belfast to st. petersburg in the north, and from lisbon to istanbul in the south.

As schultz and thomas looked on, two utterly MASSIVE, sentient riggings stared back at them, with the women in charge of them staring at them as well

They reported their names, but then sensed each other in the sky, the clouds from their explosions radiating energy across the north sea between them, they both picked up the energetic scent.

before the commanders could stop them, they raced towards the north sea triple time.

as both commanders processed what happened, they shook in fear, their careers were about to be over.

XXXVVVVXXX

The sirens had detected the ballistic explosions, and Observer didn't like it.

"Tester, do you read me?" She asked

"Loud and clear, man I didn't know they would do tests in their own cities" Tester said with sarcasm

"Then you should know what to do, find out what caused it, and figure out how we can dispose of them, any kansen born from an explosion rivaling the hiroshima bombing is not one to be messed with" Observer said

"Can I use the orochi we were planning to use on london?" Tester asked

"Go right ahead" Observer said, much to tester's glee

XXXVVVXXX

Tester opened a mirror sea to release a massive fleet centered on an orochi, it glowed red and sailed into the north sea without delay, tester played escort by transforming her rigging into full ship size, it looked like a black futuristic montana class battleship with guided missile modules and other gadgets, it was sleek too.

"Tester, miss, why the hell are we attacking the north sea now?" one of her cyborg aides asked

"Because we're experiencing an unexpected turn of events, two new kansen just dropped and we're here to make them pay for being created, now get ready to launch the infiltrator V's" Tester said as they detected two massive signatures sailing close by.

"That's them, ready the missile" the chief cyborg said as the workers readied the ballistic missile

"No, it wont work, use the guided missile" Tester said

they switched to the guided missile, and launched IT.

But as it rocketed towards the west, it was destroyed midair, no target destruction.

"WHAT IN ZERO'S NAME!?" Tester growled, she summoned more guided missiles towards the west while several guided missile pawns fired their missiles eastward.

But the missiles were destroyed mid flight.

"what the hell is going on, missile command report, REPORT" Tester demanded, but the siren automated frequencies didn't respond.

And more importantly, despite the siren detection systems, they could no longer lock in on the signals, they were being scrambled

"What the fuck, all forces prepare for circular missile assault, attack in all dir-"

Her order was cut short by the sound of several siren ships exploding, and numerous HE rockets decimating dozens more.

"SCOUT TEAMS REPORT IN" Tester yelled, but as she yelled, she heard the sound of a massive ballistic shot.

two 21-inch shells came from the distance and landed right into an MK V rook, destroying its ammo stores and splitting it in two like it was nothing.

The violence of the explosion sent one half of it forward, ramming into a queen, destroying it.

"By the magister...." tester said, but as her horror grew, something shining came straight for one of the ballistic missile rooks, and when it connected, the explosion of light destroyed every ship around it

The sword that remained in what remained of the rook shone brightly, and tester recognised it.

"That...that's excalibur-" she said, and as she connected the dots, a shadow moved across the water, two of them.

Soon a massive breath of plasma fire melted or destroyed 30 siren ships with ease, severely damaged a hundred more, and nearly cooked an escort queen.

"tester, we're picking up two giant mechanical signatures-" was the last thing the orochi bridge crew said before excalibur was pulled out of the rook by a giant mechanical hand, and a giant plasma blast was fired at the end, but the hand reacted quickly and parried it, sending it at the orochi and blasting a massive hole in its hull.

the bridge rocketed off the orochi like a missile, falling into the gaping maw of a massive serpent with five heads.

the serpent split it up between its heads and devoured it, its eyes glaring into the distance.

Tester then saw what looked like a giant mechanical king emerge from the mist.

The king and the Hydra glared at each other, and Tester contacted observer

"This isn't about us..."

Observer was confused "tester what the fuck are you talking about?"

"I'M ABOUT TO GET CRUSHED BETWEEN AN UNSTOPPABLE FORCE AND AN IMMOVABLE OBJECT, I'M GETTING OUT OF HERE" Tester said, running for her mechanical life as the mechanical king sliced through the orochi trying to slice one of the hydra's heads, which dodged and fired several plasma blasts, obliterating the siren superweapon, or what was left of it.

the siren fleet tried attacking the titans, but they paid little attention, this showdown in the north sea was between THEM.

two kansen women then showed up, sizing each other.

from the east, a kansen wearing a teutonic knight uniform with no helmet but still sleek black aside from the chest area which had the cross.

from the west, a kansen wearing similarly crusader-like armor, with a lion over the heart area, and the union jack for a cape.

"Guten tag British schweine"

"Hello kraut"

"You missed Skagerrak"

"So did you, and its jutland you hun"

"Not anymore, I will finish what the high seas fleet started"

"I will finish you like Napoleon did during the 4th coalition"

The two kansen and their riggings began circling, they prepared their guns.

Which one of them would win?

SMS Preussen? or HMS Dreadnought?

Chapter Text

Amsterdam, Tulipa

"This is commandeur Lena van Zanen of the royal tulipan navy, what in the seven provinces is going on azur lane!?" The voice of a frantic female official shouted over a phone.

"This is commandante....dante....of the sardegnan navy reporting, we've received word of two massive battleships fighting in the north sea" Dante answered

"why are you reporting in and not the base commander?"

"He and his SIC are occupied at the moment, I'm in charge because I happened to be in the comm room, now report what you have" Dante said

"Well we got giant tidal waves threatening to sink half my country here, and a frightened populous wondering what those thunderous noises are" Lena reported

"I don't know myself, according to commodore thomas rodney and konteradmiral albrecht schultz, the ships are HMS dreadnought and SMS preussen, and they're causing this, but I don't believe that"

Lena paused and put her mic on mute.

"Zeven provincien, get her in here" Lena ordered

The nature elf cruiser nodded and went to get someone.

That someone was a gruffy old-looking kansen, unusual for the fact they aged.

"Lena...what is it this time?" the gruff kansen asked

"Your old friend Preussen is back" Lena said

The gruff kansen stepped back in shock "Its true!?"

"Yes, and Dreadnought too, they're duking it out in the north sea" Lena said

"Give me a ship and I can settle them down" the kansen replied

"No, we can't stop them, I can't risk you"

"That's unfair..."

"But you're still getting a new ship, get to the docks and fit yourself into the new battleship we have for you" Lena ordered

The old kansen left, her gruffness left her limping.

XXXVVVXXX

Dreadnought and Preussen were clashing, as intense as ever.

Preussen's hydra fired massive salvo after massive salvo while ripping into dreadnought's mech's body, which responded with 4-gun salvos that burned at the hydra's necks.

"BLOOD UND IRON!"

"RULE BRITANNIA!"

Their shouts summoned hordes of ghostly soldiers that raced and clashed with one another, spectral gunshots and sword swipes being the language of these echoes of the past.

The armies refused to budge on the waters, ghostly cavalry danced around trying to find an opening to exploit as Preussen whipped out a sword to clash with Dreadnought who brought to bear her own, they pushed against each other's blades without budging a single centimeter.

Like two bulls fighting for dominance, neither budged while their ghostly armies and their riggings fought to dominate the sea.

Despite facing a giant hydra, the mechanical king was fairing well, slicing a head off using its excalibur, but the hydra re-connected with it and fired several blasts of plasma fire that melted the king's armor in several spots, the king responded by gripping another head, ripping it off, and shoving it into another.

In the middle of this, the siren forces had been quickly annihilated, collateral damage in this struggle, the formerly menacing orochi was utter rubble, and the rest didn't fair much better, becoming makeshift hills and passageways as they sank, the phantom armies using them to try and gain an advantage over the other side.

"TEA-PISSING BITCH"

"HAMSTER-BORN HUN"

Their insults only galvanised them further, their bullfight for dominance causing the very storm that was being reported, a violent storm, violent thunder and biblical rain the only wall that kept the beasts contained, each salvo masked by thunder and roaring winds, each crack of metal nothing but another instrument.

XXXVVVXXX

"That's a category 5 storm just like the one enterprise made" Dante said, in talks with Asmiov and Maximilian

"Far worse comrade, look at the wind measurements" Asmiov said, and to Dante's horror, it was true

The wind speeds were being reported at 210 MPH, and it was still strengthening, expanding even, at this rate all of northern europa would be swamped in an apocalyptic typhoon.

"DAMNIT, Enterprise could've handled that easily" Dante groaned, "I can't send Roma into that, she could be ripped apart....think Dante what kansen could get in there and break them up"

Schultz appeared over video call

"I have gut news, there are two kansen in the area that can help" Schultz replied, rodney came online too

"We can send audacious in as soon as possible"

"THE HELL WITH YOU TWO, Asmiov-"

"Not happening, even if we could freeze it, it'd drown europe into snow before it dissipated" Asimov said

Maximilian threw his sabre across the room.

"You're all idiots, we can end this with more force-"

He was interrupted by Charles breaking into the room

"I'm getting Hakuryuu to jet somebody there ASAP"

XXXVVVXXX

Missiles and Torpedoes were being deployed and all they did was make a big explosion that damaged both kansen.

But as the explosions dissipated, it was clear they were going to keep fighting.

The hydra had a head hanging by mechanical sinews and a tail wrapped around the mechanical king, who had a melted eye socket and a gaping chest wound, but both riggings were fighting on regardless.

Preussen meanwhile had managed to break the stalemate of pushing and shoving after both their blades shattered, german suplexing Dreadnought against a wrecked MK V Queen, but Dreadnought got back up and socked Preussen in the jaw, shattering some teeth.

The ghostly armies had taken casualties by this point, they were withering from the storm and the growing amount of damage the kansen were inflicting upon each other.

"Give it up Kraut!" Dreadnought taunted

"Never, NEVER!" Preussen proclaimed as she righted herself and delivered a powerful gut punch.

Her Hydra had managed to break an arm off dreadnought's rigging, which reacted by firing whatever active gun it could, shattering all but one Hydra head.

Dreadnought recovered from the gut punch and tried socking Preussen again, but missed

As they stood there, taking in the damage, a distant gun going off was heard, and soon both riggings were blasted by what looked like the spread of a giant shotgun.

"STOP! You've violated the law!" a rather american voice said.

As both ships glared, a mechanical winged horse galloped in, being ridden by some cowgirl with a marshal's badge.

Dreadnought recognised the figure before preussen did

"TEXAS!?"

"The one and only you lobsterback" Texas said as she blew the smoke off her shotgun, which was basically a 457mmm two-gun turret shaped to be wielded like a shotgun

"Where's your peachy chap?" Dreadnought asked

"Back home takin' in the sights, I'm here to tell you to stop fighting before y'all destroy everythin' within a 2,000 mile radius" Texas said, pointing to the storm that was being dispersed by cherry blossoms

Preussen glared at Texas "I follow no orders except my lord friedrich's-"

"Then it's a good thing I brought backup" Texas said, pointing to two 3 headed mechanical dragons, one black, one white, glaring at preussen's hydra

Dreadnought was puzzled

"Friedrich? didn't she scuttle herself?" she asked

Preussen was confused too, she thought friedrich was dead, but then two iron blood kansen showed up, bismarck and tirpitz

"Stand down Preussen, dreadnought is an ally now" Bismarck ordered, Tirpitz silently raising a wall of ice between dreadnoguht and preussen to prevent further conflict as audacious came with javelin and others

"Auddie!?" Dreadnought said

"Not auddie, audacious" Audacious said, a jellyfish did a rimshot

She stared at dreadnought "You're as robust and fearless as ever, lizzie will be happy to see you"

Dreadnought hugged her "it IS you" she said with a smile

Audacious patted her back "I'm not a dreadnought anymore though, I'm an aircraft carrier"

"A flattop? why the hell would you ever want to be rid of your guns?"

Audacious grinned "let's just say air power's become just as essential to war as any gun"

Preussen meanwhile was glaring at bismarck and tirpitz

"Whoever you are, you're not friedrich, so you hold no sway over me" she spat

Tirpitz sighed "I was warned you picked up my namesake's aggressive habits"

"Namesake!?"

"Allow me to introduce you, I'm SMS tirpitz-"

"Tirpitz? after ALFRED von tirpitz? HIM?" Preussen said in disbelief

"That is correct, christened by his daughter, I'm the white konigen of the iron blood, one of the two konigens of the great chessboard to serve the kaiserin" Tirpitz said

"I take it you're the black konigen" Preussen said to Bismarck

"Nein, I'm the kaiserin, SMS Bismarck" Bismarck said

"Bismarck!? after otto-"

"Christened by his own granddaughter too" Bismarck said

Preussen stood in disbelief "so..... what of friedrich?"

"She's my black konigen of course, and chief of intelligence" Bismarck replied

"Tch....even if this is true, you have to earn that right, she was named after a mighty monarch, what right do you have to stand where she stood?" Preussen spat

She looked to her hydra, but it was cowering, Geryon had been sizing it up in case he had to fight, and it was clear Preussen's hydra was terrified.

"Stålslange, get up and fight!" Preussen demanded, but he wasn't listening, he was trying to coil up in defense

Tripitz's rigging, named Fenrir, started sizing Stalslange up as well, their auras were causing an immense pressure

Satsuma, who had dispersed the typhoon, let her cherry blossoms soothe the wounded riggings.

"We must head back to azur lane and answer for this" Bismarck ordered, cowing Preussen with her mere presence now that she realised who she was messing with.

The royal navy kansen did the same, the ice wall dispersed, and inquiries began.

XXXXXVVVVVXXXXX

"So that's it huh?" Charles said, pouring over notes

"Ja" Bismarck said

Charles sighed "lucky for your commanders nobody is holding them at fault, but you and whoever's in command of the royal navy will have to keep an eye on your new assets"

Bismarck nodded, then walked out with schultz and thomas, when his next guest arrived

"Figured you'd be here" Charles said, "welcome to azur lane"

Lena van zenan sat down with zeven provincien and smiled

"I'm glad to be here, I'm willing to let our ports be free for AL usage, but there's something I want to have taken care of"

"And what is that?"

Outside, an unusual battleship sailed into port, flying the tulipan naval banner, the royal tulipan standard, and an old naval banner from an era she felt alone in.

The kansen stepped out onto her deck, her old coat shrouding her body as she looked at the base, specifically the iron blood dorms

"I may not be iron blood on paper anymore, but I still am at heart" she said as she got out her nameplate

HNLMS Nassau

Chapter Text

Richtoffen and United States had managed to link up right on time, the siren counterattack against them was large and intense.

"I'm glad you're like your namesake in aerial combat" United states admitted as she dropped a payload of freedom, as in 20 HE bombs carried by A-2 savages while Richtoffen's 262's provided air cover for the ongoing surface battle

"Hey don't sell yourself short of a full beer fest" Richtoffen replied as she, with her flying circus, began flying in an iron cross formation, deploying a wave of rockets that destroyed a good chunk of the siren right air flank, the center was locked dead on, and richtoffen's dragon incinerated it with a firey laser breath.

Eugen had taken time to call back for reinforcements, and Z23 was leading the reinforcements, her laser cannon outright destroying a pawn on impact

"I have to think the commandant for jormun" Z23 said with a smile as she let Jormun turn into his serpentine form and rapidly constrict a rook, crushing it, as she fired her laser gatling gun at the hordes of humanoids.

"I have to say niimi, not a bad setup, but can you torpedo?" Eugen inquired

"With maximum annihilation!" Z23 replied as she fired off her waterjet torpedoes that sank an enemy queen violently by blasting several giant holes in them.

"Not bad" Eugen said as she fired off a full broadside

Bremerton and Guam had connected their firing lines with the iron blood forces, allowing distant cover fire, proven valuable when guam sunk a bishop with a dead-on shot.

Bremerton decided to crack open some AP firing, a breaker was the victim of this.

"Eugen, I have to wonder, why aren't you trying harder?" Bremerton asked over radio

"Vat do you mean?" Eugen inquired as she deployed her magnetic 622mm torpedoes.

"You seem to be casual with this, aren't you afraid things will get worse?" Bremerton asked as she fired at siren aircraft

"I've been given such an advanced refit that I'm as capable as a battleship from the 40's era, I am no longer solely vanguard, I can act as a main fleet ship now, and zis power, oh the power, the power to crush all those in my way, you're right, I should get more...active" Eugen suddenly gained a dangerous smile as she fired off her main battery, twin laser beams that ripped across the water and destroyed a MK IV breaker by detonating its ammo stores.

Eugen's smiled grew even more, "MORE...MORE!"

She deployed all of her arsenal and fired relentlessly at the heart of the siren surface force, with every shot, more bodies piled up, more jets were blown out of the sky, and the more eugen indulged in it.

"ahaha, AHAHAHAHAHA, THE POWERRRRR, I WANT MORE!" Eugen shouted as she tore down several breakers at once, Z23 and several U-boats were actually starting to look on in fear

"This is Z23 to richtoffen, Eugen has begun to lose it"

Richtoffen eyed the heavy cruiser from above and radioed her

"Eugen, you dummkopf, get back now before you get into serious trouble!" she said

"I AM THE TROUBLE" Eugen barked back as she tore into more sirens, completely lost in the battle.

"....is...is she okay?" United states asked

"I....I don't know....zeppelin, is this normal?" richtoffen asked her fellow carrier

"Nein, she is completely into it, you need to help her, she will not stop until every siren is dead, or she is...." Zeppelin said, summoning her bombers to commit to a bombing run around eugen's position to destroy enough sirens for richtoffen to follow through with a rocket strike, clearing the general area

Eugen paused upon noticing all the wrecks.

"Its over? but it was just getting good" Eugen pouted

"And you nearly lost it again" Zeppelin scolded "Eugen, you ARE strong, you are powerful, but if I had to tell bismarck you killed yourself with such a rash action-"

Bismarck.

That made eugen cease her bloodlust completely.

".....I'm sorry zepp"

"....I know you are, besides, you can still kill god with me later"

They both laughed, Richtoffen was...disturbed

"You get used to it" Z23 said over radio

"......Okay then" Richtoffen smiled, killing god for the glory of iron blood felt good.

United States and the other eagle union forces had finished their cleanup on their side of the battle, it felt peaceful for once.

"You know, I could go for some beer after this" United states admitted

"You and me both" Richtoffen replied

"JUST FUCK ALREADY" Eugen jabbed

"SEND ME PICTURES" Bremerton said, joining in on the banter

This friendly banter was exchanged for some time until their alert sensors went off.

"WHO DARES" Eugen asked with a dangerous hiss as she was about to win an argument over 99 pence for a beer.

There was no reply, but the alerts kept ringing, and soon, a ballistic projectile descended upon them.

They didn't have time to react before-




XXXXXVVVVVXXXXX


Back at base, the explosion was detected by radar and recon planes from fleets all across the pacific.

"TASK FORCE BAKER REPORT IN" Charles demanded frantically

No response.

"I repeat, task force baker, REPORT, NOW" Charles said

Still nothing

He growled angrily "DAMNIT, THEY FUCKING GOT THEM" he kicked a table in a fit of rage.

Hakuryuu hugged him "We'll make them pay for this"

"WE?" charles asked sarcastically, then he realised hakuryuu was hugging him

".....haki....I thought you didn't like hugs"

Hakuryuu pulled back with a blush "I-I DON'T I JUST- I-" she fell backward

Shiranui hit her with a bonk stick

"Dummy, lies aren't good"

Charles cracked a rare chuckle before summoning schultz and commander jackson

"Alright you two, we got a serious problem, task force baker got hit with a ballistic missile, and I can't get them to respond, can you organise a rescue force?"

Schultz's eyes shrank in horror "herr commandant....I...uhhh....I was hoping you didn't ask me to do this" he said, sweating nervously

"whats the holdup doc?" Jackson asked

"you see, prinz eugen was apart of that task force....and so-"

"well I'm sure we'll find your replacement soon if you don't get that force made up" Charles jabbed.

"I'M DEAD EITHER WAY" Schultz exclaimed

"Good, die sooner so it'll be over, NOW GET" Charles demanded, and schultz left, knowing he was on a suicide mission.

telling bismarck that eugen may be dead.

as for jackson, he trembled a little "I-I can get someone, just PLEASE don't let the rear admiral find out"

"why? you think he's going to shoot you because of something YOU DIDN'T DO?" Charles glared

"I....he left me with strict orders"

"And I strictly order you to get a rescue mission sorted out" Charles replied

"I can do that, but I had orders to not use the trident key, a-and if I do this, I'll have to allow it, b-but I risk him-"

"Oh for the love of god SHUT UP" charles groaned "we're up against several orochis, and you're worried about him being upset because YOU would have to respond appropriately? GET THE FUCK OVER YOURSELF, THIS IS WAR NOT SOME GULAG, NOW GET YOUR BIG BOY BOOTS ON AND BE PREPARED TO USE THE TRIDENT LOCK, NOW!!!"

Jackson sighed and slunk out of the room, he knew he was screwed.

XXXVVVXXX

Charles took time to cool off by walking around with hakuryuu and shiranui

"Now I see why you have a temper" Shiranui said, "that idiot is like a post turtle"

"While I trust rear admiral chris's judgement, I do wonder why he chose HIM of all the available officers to commission as faction commander during his leave" Charles admitted

"I know jackson, he and chris actually have a small history nowadays, the dummy tried dating hornet and failed, didn't listen to his advice, I think he's punishing him for this"

"No that's not like him, he respects his position and doesn't see it as a burden to pass onto someone else, no, there's something else to this yellowback" Charles pondered

"Maybe look into his file?" Hakuryuu asked

"Nah, maybe we'll figure it out later, as for now, want to go eat some dinner at his bistro?" Charles offered

They both nodded with a smile

XXXVVVXXX

Before they got there however, a sakuran officer approached him, flanked by shimanto and unzen

"Forgive me shikkian-sama but I am commander Tajiri, and I'm here to be the new faction leader for sakura" the officer said

"Oh shit I forgot, you were supposed to be initiated in" Charles said, Hakuryuu and Shiranui eyed Tajiri suspiciously

"I am ready to accept command at any time"

Charles nodded "well, welcome aboard, sakura dorms are well, you know where they are, sorry we've had a chaotic week-"

"I'm well aware, shimanto picked up the explosion on her radar, I would like my first action to be organising a sakura force to help out our allies" Tajiri said

"I like your speed kid, okay you can do that, just note that kaga and shoukaku will probably be irritable, hakuryuu and shiranui are special to me, and well thats it"

"Why  would they be irritable?"

"Because they're trying to relax with someone they're close to" Hakuryuu said

"I understand, but they have orders"

"And I give a lot of 'em, just make sure you have a strong force, we're up against ballistic missile battleships" Charles said

"This'll be fun then, I'll organise a force right away" he then dashed off

"something about him unsettle you two?" charles asked the 4 sakura ships

"Tajiri is infamous for nearly losing his position and his career quite a lot, he's an old friend of satoshi's, but he's also personally killed a few sirens and their thralls" Shimanto said, "we can't trust him fully, but he's sink or swim, so if he swims, you can contain him" Unzen added.

Charles nodded, "good then, I hope he works, without my SIC around here I feel like I'm about to regret my position"

XXXXVVVVXXXX

Schultz summoned Bismarck for a meeting.

"You wanted to see me commandant?" Bismarck asked

"Ja, I need you to go out to borneo with a full force squadron, rescue mission" Schultz said, trying to act calm but Bismarck raised an eyebrow

"Rescue mission? richtoffen's force is in trouble?" Bismarck inquired

"thats an...understatement"

Now Bismarck was more suspicious

"Commandant, did something happen to mein kleines haschen?" she asked CALMLY

"w-well uh s-see there was a ballistic mi-"

 

"WHAT. DID. YOU. LET. HAPPEN. TO. MEIN, KLEINES, HASCHEN, SCHULTZ?"


Schultz was utterly terrified now.

"I-it wasn't my fa-"

That was the wrong answer

"Listen right here COMMANDANT, if I go out there and see her corpse floating in the water, you'll be lucky to face a court martial when I'm done with you" Bismarck growled

"T-that's why I've okayed tirpitz and preussen going along for this, its an orochi situation" Schultz said

"I'll compile the team myself, if eugen is alive, I'll cover your tab for the next party" Bismarck said, storming off.

Schultz exhaled all the stress out and melted into his chair.

"Please let eugen be alive" Schultz said.

XXXVVVXXX

Bismarck called to order several battleships

Preussen and Tirpitz were the first to arrive

"Task force Baker has fallen, our friends...our fellow iron blood, they all could be dead, even....some close to us" Bismarck said in front of the assembled group, which included weser, hipper, friedrich, blücher, and new battleship schlieffen, among others

"I have gathered you all because I'm personally going out there for this rescue operation, normally tirpitz would be in charge while I'm gone but, personal reasons mean she has no reason to stay, friedrich is usually in charge, but if she wants to come, I won't stop her" Bismarck said

Friedrich shook her head "nein, I'm staying, need to make the commandant repent" she said with a dark grin

Preussen smiled "thats the friedrich I know"

Friedrich turned to see Preussen "Oh my goodness, its you, come here my iron child" friedrich said with a wholesome grin, embracing the battleship in a big old hug.

"Its so good to see you again preussen" Friedrich said, stroking preussen's back gently

"I'm glad I'm back mama fritz, I've missed you so much" the bigger battleship said with childlike tears in her eyes.

"My you've grown haha" Friedrich chuckled "guess soon you'll carry ME to bed" she joked

"I don't think I will, but I promise I'll make you proud" Preussen said.

Bismarck had sat down, waiting patiently for them to finish

"Hate to interrupt, but....we still need to figure out who's going" Tirpitz said

"I am definitely" Preussen said

Several Uboats signaled they'd be going, including 556, 96, and 110

After it was over, the fleet was ready, and Bismarck summoned her full rigging, it looked more monstrous and massive, outsizing friedrich's, tirpitz formed up right next to her, the leaders of the charge.

XXXVVVXXX

On eagle union side, jackson had called to order everyone in eagle union that was on base

"There's been an incident involving united states and the rest of task force baker, a missile struck their last known position and we have no contact, so I'll have to pull back our forces headed towards luzon, and have them go rescue our friends, on top of that, due to the possible appearance of another orochi or worse, an enforcer, I need more ships to come to our ally's aid"

The eagle union kansen looked on with worry, including one who was toting a carrot plush

"Niimi....." she said tiredly

"Laffey, shouldn't you be with the third fleet?" Jackson asked

"stayed behind...wanted to be with ayanami and niimi and javelin" Laffey replied

Jackson felt his heart tighten "laffey....are you sure you're up for the task?"

Laffey showed a severed siren head

"My collection isn't complete..." she said, scaring the shit out of some eagle union officers

Jackson stepped back, unsettled by this blunt destroyer.

"if laffey's going, I'm going too" william D porter said

Laffey uttered a small "hooray", gradually waking up more

"Did ANYONE of the third fleet go with the rear admiral?" Jackson pondered out loud

"nah its just us" william d porter said, "and I promise I will do whatever I can to see this operation through"

some eagle union ships began having doubts about bringing her along

Jackson sighed "I can't deny you two, you're willing and thats good, but who else is gonna-"

And then a shotgun shot past him and hit a target

Texas blew the smoke off her shotgun.

"You got yourself a problem, and I intend to solve it" Texas said, wrapping up her hands in brawler tape, missouri and wisconsin showed up to back her.

"Iowa was part of the leyte gulf attack force before this shit went down, I owe it to her to make sure she comes back" Missouri exclaimed

Wisconsin nodded, breaking a beer bottle to use as a weapon

Jackson fealt terrified in the presence of these determined kansen, they all had fought their hearts out for eagle union, and yet here they were, ready to do it again, was it ever enough for them?

And thats when indiana showed up with a refitted indianapolis

"we're goin' too"

Jackson began to sweat vigorously "I-uhhh, I don't think we need all of you-"

"BULLSHIT" every single ship in the room said

Jackon wondered how the hell chris handled these people.

"s-still it'll be nice to have some air cover" he said

"don't worry about that" Franklin said, her and shangri-la showing up.

and thats when the last shop showed up, kearsarge

"Analysing, we are guaranteed success now" she said

Texas lead them all out before jackson could object, the eagle union force was ready to go

XXXXVVVXXXX

Bismarck saw Texas summon her rigging, and noted how massive the guns were, they rivaled her own

"Texas, heard about you, glad to see someone else willing to lead the charge" she said over the radio

"I've heard about you too, we should spar sometime' she said as she summoned drones around her ship

"Like my sentries?" she asked

Bismarck nodded "you and I are going to get along well"

Texas smiled, and when everyone was ready to go, Tirpitz asked the entire fleet if they were okay to head out

"My body is ready" Missouri said.

After that, nobody objected, and they were off to the races.

The malay archipelago was about to see the wrath of the two eagles descend from above, and yet, as they sailed off, they noticed a third fleet coming their way

Lead by satsuma, and a refitted shinano.

this was going to get JUICY.

Chapter Text

Pain.....

Misery.....

The burning of skin

New skin grows because the brain demands it

But is it enough?

Task force Baker was now ground zero, their ships dotted the water among some unlucky sirens, at least, that was the image that people theorised they'd find when they got there.

Bismarck, Texas, Satsuma, they were all preparing for the worst.

"I can't believe they actually launched it" Texas said, sitting down on her bridge, radioing in with the other fleet leaders

"Chris-sama would've sent enterprise after them..." Satsuma said

"I know he's got a record for fighting fire with fire, but do you really think he would've sent all of us out?" Texas asked

"He would've, he definitely would've" Ayanami said, joining in

"He possibly would've sent us all out anyway once air supremacy was achieved, that was the plan after all" Tirpitz said

But Bismarck wasn't in a talkative mood.

She was focused elsewhere.

"Eugen......you always were there for me when I wanted you, needed you even....."

Flashback

"Lord Bismarck, Eugen's come back with another report of siren activity, she took care of it with a well organised encirclement, all the bills were filed, and she's checked the uboats for you"

"Dear sister, don't worry about the upcoming banquet, Eugen's offered to attend in your place"

"These files...all sorted....who did this?"

"I did mein leader"

"Danke Eugen, that will be all"

"Vielen dank Eugen"

"Eugen don't go overboard with your games, we have to focus"

"Yes mein leader"

"Bismarck, where shall we sortie today?"

"Hey Bismarck, want to go out and patrol the north sea sometime?"

"Hey I got this invitation to a banquet, why don't you come along?"

"Come on biscuit try this on, you'll look amazing in it"

"wait...what did you just call me"

"oops...my bad"

"nein, its okay, an innocent slip of the tongue"

"so will you-"

"nein I'm not wearing it"

"Ich liebe dich.....just kidding"

"I wish you weren't"

"I heard that~"

"I know you did tirpitz..."

"Eugen, I need you to handle a small matter for me"

"Already on it"

"I caught her being drunk again"

"Please don't put her in the dungeon"

"I won't, it'll just make it worse to put it practically"

"You're right it would, especially if she thinks as highly of you as I think she does"

"Are you saying that she, loves me more than just as a leader?"

"Damn right I am, and I can tell the feeling's mutual, go get her, don't let her get away, I have your back"

"*motorboating bismarck's soft landing noises*"

"EUGENNNN"

"The almighty beast made of steel....cares about people? color me shocked"

"Thats the eugen I know, where was she last night though? I didn't see her anywhere"

"I....I don't know"

"I.....I am not the best lover to choose"

"You are to me"

End of flashback

Bismarck left the radio chat, and isolated herself in her captain's quarters.

It was unbecoming of a kaiserin to sulk, but how could she not? she was without her right-hand lady, her lover, her....little hare.

She wondered how he'd react if he was in this situation, he always had the answers to these things, he helped them get together, if there was a time for him to speak, it was now.

And yet, he was on leave, he wasn't to be contacted.....unless things were truly dire.

But she didn't need to call him...right? surely she could get through this with her other friends and even family.....family.....

Thats when she decided to call someone, someone she had barely spoken too for some time, not out of hatred, but because they were both busy.

Yet, within seconds, the phone was picked up

"Guten tag mein little beast of steel" The voice said

"Hey.....you stubborn fool" Bismarck said with a small smile

"Good to hear from you, how are you doing?"

"Not well, remember eugen?"

"I could never forget, she and you are like iron and blood" the voice said, nostalgically "I still remember the smile on her face when she reported that you were alive"

"Yeah....she really was happy, but....not as happy as when she proposed a few months ago"

"The rumors ARE true, thats great news you little biscuit, halsey's been insufferably upbeat since the wedding, I miss his scowl" the voice said with a chuckle.

"Well, sorry to say there may not be one..."

"......what. happened."

"Eugen got...she got caught up in a ballistic missile strike, she's been out of contact, I'm going to find her...but I don't know if-"

"Silence. I will not tolerate doubt from you, if it truly is a matter of life and death, I know you chose both, life for yourself, death for your enemies, you survived against all odds, and I know eugen can too, and if that isn't enough to convince you that I have faith in you, look up" he then cut the line.

Schlieffen was sailing somewhat behind when she noticed weser had a jet in the air

"Weser...why do you have a jet in the air?" Schlieffen radioed

"Because somebody has been insistent that he be left as an anniversary surprise" Weser said as the jet flew to Bismarck

Bismarck saw the jet land on her deck, and when she saw the man coming out of it, her jaw dropped.

"F-FATHER!?" Bismarck exclaimed, she jumped out from her bridge to see if she was seeing things.

"H-how the hole did you get here?" Bismarck said in shock

"Weser, after I saw you at the dock before preussen broke out I tailed you, sorry for never reaching you, I wanted to surprise you"

"Well you certainly did" Bismarck said, hugging the old admiral, "thanks for coming"

"I couldn't stay away forever, now if you excuse me, I believe someone has to inform everyone I'm here"

Bismarck nodded, and reached for her intercom

"This is bismarck to everyone in this rescue force, admiral gunther lutjens has arrived and is ready to take command, I repeat, gunther lutjens is here and well!"

Every iron blood kansen except weser was speechless

And the allied fleets honked their horns in respect.

Lutjens, for his part, said some words

"I'll be taking command of this operation, I know you girls can do amazing things, but I have personal stake in this, and frankly, I don't plan on dying without seeing my pride and joys in action one last time"

With this, everyone sailed on towards the ballistic detonation

XXXXXVVVVVXXXXX

"Target was hit, we'll look for survivors soon" Compiler reported

"Excellent, that'll teach that bastard rear admiral to not screw with us anymore" Tester said

"Pipe it Tester" Observer said, "this action is likely going to cause azur lane to bring forth every big gun they have, so be prepared to face their titans, and I don't want ANYONE to engage if they see the third fleet banner coming" she finished

"The third fleet? eagle union's? they're at san diego" Compiler said

"They wont stay there forever, and just so we're clear, this timeline still can't dominate us, but when he moves, we're screwed" Observer said

"when? don't you mean if?" Tester asked

"He's on leave, that wont last forever" Observer said

"But he could still be killed" Purifier said

"Good idea, go out and kill him, see if you survive his angry wife, j-just try, I swear nothing bad will EVER happen to you as a consequence of killing him" Observer said, laying on the sarcasm.

"Then there is another way-" Purifier said but Observer hushed her

"if we do ANYTHING to him, enterprise, yorktown, hornet, all of them, would have nobody left to control them" Observer stressed

"And we cant even be sure we can kill him with an ICBM" Compiler noted

"Yeah, unless everyone in this test was killed, I don't believe we could have a shot in hell of getting rid of him safely" Omitter opined

"So what do we do then, tip-toe around?" Tester asked sarcastically

"No, we can win this, we can isolate him too, we can lure them out to their doom, and we can even blame bon homme richard for it" Observer said

"wow, you're a real fucking idiot" Purifier said bluntly

"I'm sorry, are YOU the boss here?" Observer jabbed

"I AM" a voice boomed, revealing Miss D

"If you kill him, we all lose, so instead of screwing over my test site any more than you already have, I'm taking charge, I'll give them a fight, remember we were supposed to test, not annihilate" Miss D said, her shadow nodding.

"Thats not fair, he's out to eradicate us-" Observer whined

"And he can't convince others to do this if we let up a little, you may have sealed your fate, once word reaches him that task force baker is annihilated, you'll have two choices, death by G, or death by the yorktown sisters" Miss D said with a dangerous hiss

"what does code G have to do with this?" Tester pondered

"She's officially on his side now" Miss D replied

Everyone felt a shiver down their spines

"H-how is he....oh fuck...." Observer realised just truly how fucked they were going to be

If a known arbiter crusher was on his side, then they truly were up shit creek without a paddle.

And the creek was endless.