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It is a typical february morning, love is in the air, especially in sakura empire, since EVERYBODY IS FUCKING OH MY GOD NO THAT IS NOT HOW YOU USE YOUR FISTS-

a-anyway, commander chris and charles are in the sakura quarter, for different reasons, chris is hoping to convince shoukaku, shinano, and kaga to have a 6-way with him, agir, and enterprise (his goals are beyond your mortal understanding), charles was there to visit his girlfriends.

"Chuck......I have to ask, how the hell did you end up dating the ghost merchant?" Chris asked

"Nobody says we're dating, and thats just a rumor" Charles deflected

"Sure.....and the same is for hakuryuu?"

"Affirmative"

"Then why are you here? for the red koi?" Chris asked

Shiranui popped up and spoke "yes my idiot?"

Chris's smug grin was larger than enterprise's, if she was here she'd be jealous.

"Don't you lie to me again sir" Chris said smugly

"YOU ARE GOING TO-" Charles shouted before he was bonked on the head by a sheathed nodachi.

"Down boy" Hakuryuu replied

Chris chuckled "so tell me, red koi, is that the pet name?"

"No, he calls me little wisp, I just like seeing the dummy get bonked on the head" Shiranui replied with a smirk

"Don't tell ANYONE this but....he calls me his shining dragon" Hakuryuu blushed

"How you two ended up with him I'll never know" Chris said shaking his head, not that he could blame them, as far as he was concerned, he didn't deserve enterprise yet she loved him anyway,

"Anyways we'll deal with the dummy.....but.....we have a problem that requires your attention...since you're the only one stupid enough for this" Shiranui said

Chris smiled bitterly, "okay who needs to be ridden raw?"

Hakuryuu bonked him on the head gently....not a good sign.

"Okay....what's wrong?"

"Taihou.....our SKK kind of...did a number on her....Akagi's gone off the wall too" Hakuryuu said honestly.

Chris's mind was whirring into action.

"What the hell happened?"

"You should ask her......she's locked up in her area, she's been crying for days.......we haven't been able to reach her" Hakuryuu explained

Chris frowned, his face darkened, "I-I see........"

He bid them farewell and he rushed to taihou's place.

XXXVVVXXX

He arrived quickly and knocked on taihou's door gently.

he heard sniffling coming from within, which confirmed that she was in there.

"Taihou, its me...." He said softly.

He got no vocal response, but he did hear her move up to the door.

"Look, I want to bash down this door but I know thats not a good idea......I heard a little bit of whats happened, so.....I'll ask, does this have to do with satoshi? you dont have to speak, just knock twice for yes, once for no"

*Knock knock*

"I saw him in the medical bay....did you and akagi...fuck him to oblivion? forgive my bluntness"

*Knock Knock Knock*

That was a mixed answer.

"Let me guess...violent beating?"

*Knock Knock*

"I understand, you two were mad.... did you get reprimanded?"

*Knock*

".....is that because this hasn't leaked yet?"

*Knock Knock*

This made chris sigh deeply, he knew he would cover taihou, he believed in cosmic karma, both good and bad, but he wouldn't let taihou be sent to antarctica or something over this

"You feel guilty don't you, you love him still?"

*Knock*

"Oh...."

Chris could hear Taihou about to sob.

"Taihou, listen, people can be assholes, but its clear he loved you both....you both had.....charms as it were..."

He could feel taihou's anger, but only for a moment

"Tell me......is he still with akagi?"

At this, Taihou opened the door suddenly, chris fell backward, and saw taihou's snot and teared covered face looking at him with concern.

"I'm fine, but you're not....please....wipe that precious face and lets have some tea" Chris asked politely

Taihou nodded.

XXXVVVVXXX

Taihou and Chris were drinking tea calmly within minutes, Taihou had cleaned up.

"To answer....yes...yes he is........he chose her over me......" Taihou replied sadly.

Chris gently put his mug down, and motioned for taihou to lower hers, before he took off his uniform top, revealing his undershirt

"W-wha?"

"I dont want you to soak my uniform, but I still want to hug you, so get over here" Chris said opening his arms.

Taihou walked over to his side of the table and, with some hesitation, wrapped her arms around him and he reciprocated.

"I don't get it....why are you being nice?" Taihou asked with her voice on the verge of cracking

"Heartbreak is horrible, and you're gonna need someone to help you through it....besides, you need a friend anyway" Chris chuckled.

Taihou paused for a moment, then sighed "I always wanted someone to hold me....why did it have to be someone who's spoken for?"

"Tai....I can easily find you someone, its the month of love, people are looking for love, surely now is the best time" Chris said breaking off the hug

"B-but....everyone thinks badly of me....how can I convince them?"

Taihou raised a good point, and chris's brain gears entered overdrive in thought.

He then did a fleetchat dm with someone real quick, and turned back to taihou with a smile.

"How about, just for today, you get to live a dream of half the base?" Chris asked

"A dream? what dream?"

"A day with me" Chris said with a friendly smile.

Taihou's eyes sparkled,"y-you'll do that?"

"If only to help you get better"

Taihou was screaming internally, she hadn't told him but she still loved him deeply, and although it wouldn't work out, and she knew that, it was still a dream come true.

"I'd like that"

*A few inches later*

Taihou was giggling happily on a teacup ride in the amusement park after getting a lot of cotton candy and some fun items from a nearby shop, having the time of her life, going "WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE" like a little kid.

Chris was not on the ride, he was recording taihou as she spun around, holding a shiny treecko plush that he had won in his other arm, chuckling to himself as he finished the recording and sent it to enterprise

The caption he attached read "Who says a lonely Phoenix can't have fun?"

The text back "Who says a lonely eagle isn't watching you MISTER ;)"

Chris looked around and saw grim wearing leaf camo.

"Sneaky" He muttered

Taihou got off the ride and dragged chris to a petting zoo.

She got to pet a rabbit, which booped her on the nose.

There was a moment where she wanted to win a prize but failed, though she was insistent

"FIENDISH GAME, YOU DARE STAND BETWEEN ME AND MY GIANT PLUSH PHOENIX? GRRR"

"ma'am-" was all the barker said before chris began to slowly back away.

The barker's fate is unknown, but taihou came back to chris with a giant phoenix plush in tow, looking like a picture of innocence.

After this , and a moment where she saw albacore coming and "accidentally" stuffed her in a trash can, Taihou was on cloud 9 as she returned to her dorm with chris in tow.

"Thanks for helping me today, I wish I could give you all my love" Taihou said with a hint of sadness

"Don't worry about it, I'll be here if you need an ear again, and I hope that giant plush can allow you to sleep better tonight" Chris said

"Well you know me, I wont be doing much sleeping around it hehehe" Taihou giggled

"Nice one, well I'll see ya later" Chris said

They both waved farewell, and Taihou went inside fully content, and hugged the giant plush phoenix to gentle sleep.

Chapter Text

The light of the sun embraced the sakura quarter, a shrine maiden, a brown haired warrior goddess, and their red-haired kitsune guest welcomed the light with a meditative exhale.

"What a calm morning, so unlike how they are usually around this time of year" Mikasa said

"I'm surprised you've kept yourself under control Yamato" Nagato opined

"Its easier than you'd think, no offense, but I have no desire to breed with an eternally adolescent maiden, much less do so in the presence of anyone" she said as she turned to Mikasa who sighed in agreement.

"She has a point, consider it a blessing" Mikasa said in an assuring tone

Nagato's tails wagged a little for a moment, but drooped with her ears with a bout of sadness.

"whats wrong Nagy-chan?" Yamato asked, her use of such a nickname being a rare privilege that very few could enjoy, and 2 of them were sitting next to Nagato right now, who blushed in embarrassment at the name.

"Its just......with everything going on.....I haven't been able to see someone" Nagato said as she hugged herself with her tails.

Mikasa frowned "Why haven't you taken the time to visit this someone?" she asked

"I have.....but she's been off on sorties a lot recently......charles-san keeps wanting recon data you see" Nagato replied sadly.

Yamato instantly understood the pain nagato was going through and wrapped her fiery red tails around her to comfort her, Mikasa frowned in guilt because she couldn't exactly say the same.

"w-well....I may have to go then.....since mine is coming to visit....and it would be rude to flaunt it as the young ones say..." Mikasa said

Nagato turned to her "I-I actually would like to meet your special someone, I haven't seen her at all yet..."

"If you wish, but remember, if she wishes to pet you, thats fine" Mikasa said, this reminder necessary as Nagato wasn't used to being touched, and physical contact was something she needed to be used to nowadays.

Yamato said nothing but kept a sharp eye and ear out, her mind was an ocean of planning, perhaps she could find Nagato some special cookies and rice balls.

But her thinking didn't last long, she heard a noise and stared at the path, she saw someone with a sword walk up the path, and then saw a purple haired girl behind them, with an animate equine plus trotting in front of them.

Nagato was busy being warmed up when yamato opened up her tails to free Nagato.

"H-hey I was-"

Her objections to suddenly feeling cold were interrupted by the sound of footsteps, her ears perked up, and then she heard a familiar neigh.

her tails stood up and wagged in anticipation, Mikasa noticed and followed her eyes.

and then they saw them.

two royal navy kansen walking up the stone path carrying suitcases of various things and flowers, it didn't take a rocket scientist to figure out who they were or why they were here, and both sakura kansen stared at each other.

"warspite?"

"unicorn?"

"I guess this explains the royal navy style reading glasses" Yamato chuckled

when both RN kansen got close and saw yamato, they both were taken aback by her majestic presence.

"L-LADY YAMATO.....its an honor" Warspite said, bowing down in respect.

"Please, no need to bow, I'm not the maidens you worship, and they're here, I'll leave you alone with them" Yamato said with a teasing chuckle before she disappeared in a ball of white flames.

There was a brief moment of dead silence as everyone let yamato's parting words sink in.

They then turned back to face each other, and the first thing anyone did was thump their tails against the floorboards in happiness, courtesy of Nagato.

"H-hi nagy......" Unicorn said nervously, yuni however had no such nervousness and jumped into nagato's lap, snuggling up to her and making her thump her tails more, making mikasa lose balance, warspite ran to catch her.

Mikasa fell right into warspite's arms, like a princess and her knight, the situation becoming clear to both of them quickly.

"U-uhhh I-I" Warspite pulled back her arms letting mikasa comically drop to the ground.

"Y-you dont seem to have much strength for a knight" Mikasa lightly teased, her face still blush red.

for the other couples, Nagato got uni out of her lap and she rush tackled unicorn.

"UNIIII" Nagato said before nuzzling her, her tails wagging more freely

"I-I see you're happy to see me" Unicorn said with a blush

"Very happy" Mikasa said as Warspite helped her back up, giggling at nagato's tails.

Nagato realised it and turned crimson red, trying to stop her tails from wagging, but they refused to stop.

"T-TRAITOROUS UNCOUTH TAILS" Nagato screamed in embarassment as she started chasing them, which make unicorn giggle excitedly, easing her nerves.

"So...does this happen a lot?" Warspite asked

"No, but its still quite adorable when it happens" Mikasa replied honestly

Nagato eventually got dizzy and stopped.

"Why do I always do that" she whined out as Unicorn hugged her to keep steady

"E-easy nagy....."

Nagato froze up from being touched, but eased upon remembering it was just unicorn.

"woah....thats an improvement" Mikasa said

Both sakura ships stared at each other, and both of them asked the same question at once after a moment of silence

"So why didn't you tell me?"

Both of them were taken aback by their mutual exchange, but nagato spoke first.

"B-because I was hoping to introduce you on our next visit to the royal navy...where I could enjoy respite from my duties" Nagato replied

Mikasa nodded, "I see, well you're forgiven for that...as for me....SOMEbody doesn't want to admit that they have someone that can relate to them" Mikasa said with a teasing nudge to warspite.

"You know how the royal navy is....."

"I was born in the royal navy you vertically-challenged corgi" Mikasa said with a *bleh*

"Do you want to taste my 15-inch cannons?"

"You couldn't aim those properly if you were targeting a whale"

"I can aim my sword well enough!"

"You mean your fancy cane?"

"YOU-"

they both paused as warspite puffed up her cheeks, and then both of them started laughing in a hug "good to see you in good spirits" Mikasa said

Nagato looked on with a giggle, unicorn did too.

"So this is why you ordered two pairs of reading glasses" Nagato chuckled

"H-HOW DID YOU FIND OUT" Mikasa shouted

"I have my ways" Nagato said,putting a sleeved arm on her mouth and going "fu-fu-fu"

Unicorn blushed at the adorbleness that was her fluffy girlfriend, but remembered what she had came here with.

"H-hey...I brought chocolates" Unicorn nudged to the bag nearby.

Nagato noticed the bag and smiled "dont worry, I have some too, we can share them".

everyone agreed to this and adjourned into the shrine for some chocolate eating.

XXXVVVXXX

Mikasa and Warspite were trading cookies and teas, nagato and unicorn were feeding each other small sweets, and akashi was tied to a tree outside.

All was well, and everyone was peaceful, so it was time to talk.

"So.....guess this was always going to be asked, but how did you two meet?" Warspite asked

"I gave her a rice ball during her first trip through sakura's streets" Nagato replied with a dreamy smile.

"T-that's accurate but....I was chasing yuni...he had smelled something good..." Unicorn added

"We both were trying to find a way to blend in and get used to being away from what we were used to....then you had yuni fly into my quarters to deliver a song you made for me, I remember him looking so guilty after realising he had flattened me on the ground like a pancake" Nagato chuckled, Yuni blushed in embarrassment.

"He didn't want to look at me for a day, he felt so ashamed, as if I wasn't the one who should've felt bad" Unicorn said

"The song WAS good, and made me determined to see you again" Nagato said, her tails stiffening with determination remembering her feelings.

"So let me get this straight, is that why you asked for a pillow fort?" Mikasa asked

"HOW ELSE WAS I SUPPOSED TO KEEP HER SAFE FROM MUTSU" Nagato said in a furious blush

"Fair enough" Warspite said, sipping her tea, once she was done, her next question came quick and sharp, "so who confessed first?"

"It....wasn't much of a confession..." Unicorn said shyly, Nagato recoiled into her tails hiding her blush.

"Y-you see, neither of us did......one day I slipped and we ended up kissing on the pagoda floor.....a-after we re-c-covered we both realised we were happy about it....s-so" Nagato explained as she nearly died from embarrassment.

"T-that was the second most embarrassed I ever felt....the first being right after you squeaked with glee after I told you why I loved seeing yuni so much..."

"Oh?" Mikasa asked

"I-it's because whenever he shows up, I'm soon to follow" Unicorn explained.

By this point the little shipgirls had become so flushed they buried themselves in pillows and screamed.

They both rose back up some time later and exhaled calmly

"Better" they said in unison.

"alright little tomatoes, you're too adorable" Warspite said with a chuckle.

Nagato however, being a battleship, was quick to load a salvo, "not as adorable as mikasa when she talks about swords"

Mikasa became a tomato "N-NO"

"So...how DID you two meet?" Nagato asked.

There was a cloud of sadness that hung over the place after she asked that.

"I...was forced to leave royal navy on a vacation to sakura.......this was during my...worst" Warspite said.

Mikasa covered for her "You're familiar with....what happened?"

Nagato nodded, Unicorn looked like she was about to cry, but Nagato wrapped a tail around her in comfort.

"Warspite ended up being involuntarily made to use me as a confidant, she finally got to come to terms with what happened and released a lot of emotion, afterwards she just started showing up randomly, we bonded over our...situations, and eventually I admitted that I loved her more than an ear playing" Mikasa said in embarassment

"I had to tell her quite often they were airplanes, SHE had to tell me hentai was NOT a special tentacle dinner" Warspite said.

Nagato immediately facepalmed "Thats a common misconception...."

"W-what is hentai?" Unicorn asked

Nagato and Mikasa both froze up.

"YOU DONT NEED TO KNOW" Warspite said abruptly.

"L-let's go have fun somewhere..." Nagato asked

"I hear there's a new roller coaster" Mikasa said

Nagato froze up and her eyes turned pure white, her vietnam flashbacks kicked in remembering her last roller coaster ride.

"Uhhhh....nagy...are you okay?" Unicorn asked

"r-r-roller c-cc-c-c-c-c-c-coaster" Nagato mumbled

"what did I say?" Mikasa asked

"C-C-C-C-C-COASTERS" Nagato shook with fear.

Unicorn rushed to hug her

"P-please calm down...you're scaring me" Unicorn pleaded

Nagato took deep breaths and eventually stopped shaking.

"....how about we just enjoy teacups and all that?" Warspite suggested.

"Yeah thats fine" Nagato said.

And so they all went, it was a fun time, Mikasa and Warsptie had to be carried home due to their legs giving out, Nagato and Unicorn nommed away at their cotton candy afterwards and watched their seniors sleep peacefully.

And unicorn got another rice ball.

Chapter Text

"See ya later weevee"

"Call me that again and I'll show you what heaven looks like"

"we haven't seen the future our commander seeks, don't be impatient"

That was the trade of words between between three vampiric looking battleships as they adjourned to their dorms, with colorado, the oldest one, being the first to turn.

West Virginia saw Maryland rushing back to her dorm, unlike herself who was in no rush, she knew what was waiting for her back home, and considering the time of the year, she wanted to do something different.

She stopped by a DIY chocolate stand and approached the proprietor.

"Ah, nice to see you here" the proprietor said as he got out the needed devices.

West Virginia dropped some gold and got to work, crafting various people out of chocolate, including a massive piece, the proprietor tried not to laugh upon noticing it, and was successful, but he needed to breathe after a moment.

When west virginia was done, she gathered her chocolates into a bag and then punched the proprietor in the face, knocking him to the ground.

"OW tf-"

"Thats for not dating colorado you idiot" West Virginia said with a smirk.

she didn't wait for a comeback and went on her way.

XXXVVVXXX

When she got close to her dorm, she wondered, was her roommate awake, was he enjoying himself, was everything going nice, would he accept her handmade chocolates, were they even good?

She then heard a pillowing yell come from the dorm

"YOU STUPID KENTUCKY FIRED WHORE OF A SAND N*****"

......clearly her roommate was watching a sports game.

She chuckled to herself, she knew he got overly angry but damn was it still hilarious to hear this, and it eased her nerves.

She opened the door to her dorm and saw her roommate rage fucking the air, shouting more obscenities at a screen, WVU was losing.

"AGAIN?" West Virginia bemoaned, she hated the score, though it was quickly changing.

Her roommate turned to see her and facepalmed.

"Damnit sorry weevee...."

"Its alright, besides, they seem to be catching up" the battleship pointed as she sat down to watch the game.

"Moment you show up..." the human turned, still a bit flushed as weevee got comfortable, by dragging him closer and holding him like a pillow as the game continued.

"KIPP KISSINGER IS NOTHING MORE THAN A REJECT (WOAH HOLY SHIT DON'T SAY THAT)"

"I KNOW RIGHT, FUCK THAT BASTARD"

"I AM NOT A DAMN COMMUNIST"

"OF COURSE NOT, OTHERWISE YOU'D HAVE FUCKED CHILDREN FOR THE REVOLUTION OR SOMETHING"

"HOW THE FUCK WOULD YOU KNOW WHAT A COMMUNIST DOES"

"I'M THE MOUNTAIN MOMMA BITCH"

"THEN MOUNT ME MAMA"

They adrenaline fueled shouting match of obscenities stopped when the game was over, WVU won.

In her elation she furiously attacked her roommate with a full lip assault.

"God I love you" she said after she broke off.

"Holy shit..." was all her roommate said as he processed it all.

"T-that reminds me" West Virginia said as she started blushing, she pulled out some roses and chocolates.

"I-I made the chocolates myself..." she said sheepishly as she presented the box.

"Oh shit...I forgot to get you something.... sorry..." her roommate said apologetically

"Doesn't matter...j-just eat please" West Virginia said, anxious to get approval over it.

He did eat one chocolate, in the shape of prinz rupprecht, and hummed in delight

"This tastes good" he gave an approving smile.

"You better not be just saying that..." West Virginia glared

"I'm not, this shit's good" he replied, making weevee smile.

he ate more, and soon there was one left, one that made weevee fluster upon realising it.

"I wonder whats this big o-" he paused, it was a sweet in the shape of west virginia herself, the blush on her face, made it clear she knew EXACTLY what she was doing.

As a tease he started at the crotch area, making sounds of delight to make her blush even more, he ate her up quickly and licked his lips

"that was DELICIOUS" he said

That was too much, west virginia turned her stare into a scowl, but before her roommate could question why, she spoke

"I hope you've prepared yourself for the consequences" she said with a blush as she took off her uniform.

After a fine amount of "consequences", her roommate was sleeping contently on her bare lap as she sang on her guitar.

Another day in almost heaven.

Chapter Text

The curtains are drawn back, sleek black, they unveil a nighttime scene of a blonde haired battleship scribbling away at data files.

With violins to her right and a grand piano to her left, the movement begins as she gets out of her chair to finish filing the paperwork and begins her next task, listening to voice calls left by her grand family that is iron blood.

"This is commander christian, enty loved the gifts you got us, though the beer was a bit much for her, poor girl still can't hold it like I can"

"Tirpitz here, META Hipper requests more lunches for her to stuff her normal counterpart with, they're experimenting with breast expansion again"

"Parseval here my lord, we've located prinz eugen's signal at denmark strait, which is strange, I thought she was with you, did something happen? reply back whenever you wish, heil thee *giggle*"

That last one made bismarck pause...eugen? denmark strait? why the hell would she be there?

She scratched her head, the strings playing were driving her brain towards whatever conclusion she could come to.

"Was she searching for something? was she hurt? was she planning to off-" that thought was interrupted, and bismarck got on her coat.

She was going to find eugen and get to the bottom of this, she sent a quick reply to parseval via text, "this wasn't my doing, I had sent her out to collect some information from the royal navy, she wasn't meant to go anywhere near that area, I'm going to find her myself"

And with that she was out the door and onto her ship, racing towards the strait.

*One act later*

Bismarck despawned her ship and summoned geryon to find eugen, using hydroacoustic search to track the area.

She hoped to find her soon, the longer she stayed here, the more the memory of what she had done came back, paining her more and more.

She held a steel scowl as she looked frantically, but then geryon's scanner went off, somebody was on radar.

The identifier was KMS Prinz Eugen, and Bismarck wasted no time racing to the source of the signal, desperate to see what kind of trouble her kleines haschen had gotten herself into.

"Eugen I swear to odin I will not let you out of iron blood for a MONTH if this is like antarctica" she grumbled to herself as she skated.

Eventually though she saw eugen, and raced out to her.

Eugen, for her part, was standing on the water fidgeting with something in her uniform pocket "okay once I get my ship formed I'll set up the dinner table and then radio-"

"EUGENNNNNNNN"

The loud shout froze Eugen where she was, she gulped, and turned to face the angry tigerin she didn't expect to arrive so soon.

"G-guten abend bi-"

"Eugen was zum Teufel machst du hier?" Bismarck asked angrily.

"Funny story I was looking for something" Eugen said, internally panicking.

She kept her thoughts clouded, she had her usual unreadable face on, but she was downright anxious and terrified, she had planned to contact bismarck after setting everything up, but the plan had just went up in flames, it was going to be just like chris advised her, a way to make this location more than a painful memory, but one that'd make bismarck smile in remembrance, it was a dangerous game, and a variabl;e just made eugen lose a life, luckily she had a continue.

"Its funny isn't it? how we're here again...not for raiding....not for battle...but...here...able to reminisce" Eugen said, trying to calm bismarck down.

"Why would you want to reminisce HERE? my quarters are private enough, what could you possibly have been looking for anyway? in this....sea of regret..."

Eugen sighed, "a reason to call myself lucky"

Bismarck's anger washed away, her supportive girlfriend mode had kicked on.

"Eugen...don't tell me you're-"

"I'm not, I just wanted to remember....why I felt so hollow."

Bismarck froze.

"The sirens pulled so many strings, played us all like a fiddle for the sake of causing pain and misery....wanting to input some kind of growth within us.....I never understood their aims....even now with someone who has far more insight....I still don't get them...." Eugen said

"Well...our informant doesn't want to talk about it..." Bismarck said, "but continue"

"This battle here, you say it was your greatest mistake......but it wasn't mine"

"Huh?"

"My greatest mistake....was not trying to save you the pain of seeing me like I was for so long" Eugen said, "what the sirens did, forcing me to see so much pain and suffering...it felt like I wasn't lucky...I was just a pawn in their games.....and thus I wanted everyone to be my pawn...for my own amusement....." she said, her face cracking into despair.

Bismarck wrapped an arm around her instinctively, "Eugen........you were never like them, you were better than them, even if the first advice someone gave you was "only do that to people that truly deserve to be used like that", you still never reached the depths of siren level shamefulness, and you have constantly proven that, as I've said before"

Eugen nodded, "but I'm still mad at myself for that, and thinking I was becoming like them....which is why, when you returned, I was more than happy to finally shoot those untermensch until they were ready to meet hel herself" she said

Bismarck nodded, "guess I was filling you even before you realised it"

Eugen smirked, "ja, and with a massive dildo"

Bismarck pulled away, caught off guard by eugen's sudden burst of teasing confidence.

"Okay eugen, what's your game? and why is it here in this strait of regret and misery?"

"A betting game, I bet I can make you remember this strait fondly~" Eugen said

Bismarck could be best described as, ticked.

"Eugen...you know better than anyone that I do not like remembering this regretful past.....especially on this day" she said with a glare.

Eugen trembled a little, her nerves rising, she had to stop playing, she had pushed her luck far enough.

"T-then you can consider this a birthday gift as well, because I swear upon this strait, that as your right hand frau and keeper of your lighthouse, I will never intend to leave you to go out, ever"  Eugen said, her voice shaking by the end of it.

Bismarck's expression softened.

"You came here to proclaim your love to me? eugen.....the gesture's sweet....but I don't see how I'm gonna remember this strait fondly forever..." Bismarck said.

"Maybe not, because what you need to see is in my pocket" Eugen said with a cool face as she reached for it, but it fell out of her hand and into the water.

"VERDAMNT" Eugen screamed in despair, but geryon was quick to pluck it out the water and handed it to bismarck.

"Don't worry, I got i-" her voice paused upon realising what she was holding.

A black box with a ruby red ribbon, a suspiciously palm-sized box, and eugen's face was swelling with anxiety.

Bismarck could struggle to read people at times, she could forget things, but she wasn't an idiot, she stared at eugen's face, then back to the box, she was denying it. there was no way she was holding what she thought she was holding.

Bismarck realised the longer she stared the more tense things would get, and so she put on a fake bravado to steel herself "I-I'll check to see if its damaged" Bismarck said as she undid the ribbon and opened the box, and when she saw what was inside, her mind crashed.

Inside, was a silver ring with a diamond in the shape of the iron cross, the ring engraved with two dragon heads breathing into the diamond.

It was pristine, perfect, and it shined brightly in the night sky.

Her gasp of shock that emitted a few seconds later betrayed any sense of steel-clad resolve, eugen nervously spoke "s-so d-do you like it? I-I wanted to do this with a d-date h-here b-but"

"E-eugen.........you dummkopf..." Bismarck said blushing brightly.

"B-biscuit I-"

"A-all y-you had to d-do was ask" Bismarck said, handing eugen back the ring and extending a hand, blushing still.

Eugen's heart skipped not eins, not zwei, but drei beats, she took the ring out of the box and slipped it on bismarck's finger, the box being put back in her uniform, happily empty.

When the process was done, Bismarck raised her hand, staring at the ring on it happiness flooding her mind as she came to accept that this wasn't a game, it was no trick, it was all real, and it was happening.

And thats when Eugen saw something no one, not even bismarck's own riggings, had seen, not once, a sight that was truly a once in a lifetime opportunity.

The proud leader of the iron blood, all defenses down, staring at the ring on her hand as she lowered it, and crying happily.

Eugen moved up and hugged her, kissing her cheek.

"Its not proper for a kaiserin to cry~" she said with a giggle.

"I-its not proper to make a kaiserin cry" Bismarck fired back, more tears running down her face as her breath got heavy, "I-I didn't think you'd ever be confidant enough...."

"I dragged you out here to propose to you KNOWING I could end up making you angry, and you think I'm not confidant?" Eugen teased

"I-I know I'm late to reply with this...but ja" Bismarck said, attempting a joke.

This attempt, which eugen got immediately, made her blush.

"t-to be fair biscuit....I admit I didn't think you'd accept so easily"

"of course I would, Ich liebe dich" bismarck fired.

"And I never intend to stop doing the same, mein sweet tigerin~" eugen said before they both kissed under the moonlight, with a three headed rigging tearing up witnessing such a beautiful moment.

the curtains then closed, and the guy operating them knew, that this was a fine movement, but an encore was bound to happen.

Chapter Text

Chris had returned from his vacation with enterprise, who was now sleeping on a couch in his office with illinois on another couch, both of them had helped him get back on track with his paperwork, saratoga had to come in as well.

But he was not sleeping, all the paperwork had been filed, but one task was left, something he was meant to do by himself, sort through the valentines gifts left on his desk by the industrious royal navy maids, it was time to see who gave him what.

With a smile in anticipation of all the chocolate he was going to be eating (even though enty had given him something far more tasty in paris, ya can't satisfy chris I swear), he got to the first gift.

It was from U-110, an enigma machine.

"Okay, I'll play" he said to himself as he tried solving the code, though 110 was a smart kid, she couldn't fool chris, the code was a very obvious one in his eyes, "jaws", and as a reward, a chocolate cupcake emerged from the machine.

he put it in a preservation unit as he got the next gift read, this time it had a note

"From your second favorite eagle....I hope, Essex, well I'll tell ya essex, if this is a lemon chocolate you're going to the bottom", thankfully it wasnt, just an eagle-shaped chocolate, he nommed on it as he got the next gift out

"Guten tag, she said yes, so to thank you, I left ya a little something~"

"Eugen" chris said with a smile, he opened her gift, and it was a flash drive.

"...." despite his reservations, he plugged it in, and was met with a picture of eugen and bismarck in their swimsuits, with a caption that read "we'll be going to the beach when the weather gets better, we expect you and enty to show up too~"

The tease had done it again, he couldn't help but chuckle to himself, sharing a beach with those two? they're probably gonna bang on it- wait why was he complaining, he would too.

His next gift was from bismarck, the note was black and gold, like an invitation.

"Eugen told me you helped her go through with her plan, thank you so much for helping her, she's been using my happy tears as an excuse to kiss me.....I refuse to tell her that I'm faking the tears so she'll kiss me more hehehe, btw, I wanted to give you this for your birthday but thats a long time away and as a thanks for helping me and eugen so much, I give you the greatest honor I can give"

The gift however wasn't just chocolate, it was a chocolate iron cross, and under it, was an order of the black eagle on a silver ribbon, with a note granting him official recognition as "Margrave of Brandenburg" by order of Kaiserin Bismarck.

The royal navy would need to up their game because this was amazing, and if they wanted to keep him from helping iron blood in world domination, they would need to try HARD.

Speaking of royal navy, a gift from howe was next, a lot of chocolate cookies, and a note wishing him fair health.

Then came one from Iowa

"Thank you for helping enterprise find the woman behind the heroine, and many thanks for not fucking new jersey, she would've been insufferable"

He chuckled, new jersey was smokin' and she knew it, but she would DEFINITELY talk about it too much.

The next gift came from kearsarge, no note, just a chocolate aviation battleship cake he put in the office fridge.

Then came colorado's, a big heart of chocolate with a request for more headpats, something he was definitely going to give her for this.

Hood and KGV's valentines gift was a combo, a model of their ships and an official recognition as a protector of the crown,with the words "please dont let bismarck conquer the world" written on the bottom of it.

For the sake of the alliance he was definitely going to reel biscuit back, wait did she even WANT to rule the world? hm.

Roma's gift came next, a chocolate vesuvius, with a note, "Your splendor outshines mine and littorio's, I await further news of your exploits commandante"

"Thats it, she's getting laid" chris chuckled to himself, that chocolate volcano was downright appetite expanding.

Then there was one from warspite, a chocolate sword.

"I do not spite your hard knocks, because every time you express them to enterprise, she doesn't take the leg strength out of belfast"

Chris couldn't hold back his laughter for long, he went to another room to let it all out behind soundproof walls.

He returned to view more gifts, one from fritz rumey.

"Gut" he chuckled to himself before moving to the next, a chocolate snowflake and a chocolate communist star.

"Tirpitz and Rossiya" he acknowledged.

There was a cherry blossom made out of cherries next, coated in chocolate, the note writer seemed nervous

"I-its from all of us at sakura....I-I order you to enjoy this delicious treat" -Nagato

He smiled, putting the blossom in the fridge.

The next gift came from Jean Bart, he opened the letter and out popped a photo of jean bart in her lunar near year outfit, autographed with a kiss.

"damnit jean.....stop being gorgeous"

The photo replied, "no"

Spooky.

Chris then saw the peach-shaped gift and OH GOD THAT'S MOGADOR'S BUTT.

"Hehehehehe, found you~"

XXXVVVXXX

"What have I told you?" Jean bart asked an injured vichya destroyer some time later

"Don't go after chris" mogador replied sheepishly

"And what did you do?"

"Go after chris"

"Exactly, I'm sentencing you to wearing clothes for a month, WITH your tribunal cloak may I add, starting as soon as you get out of that medical bed"

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO"

XXXVVVXXX

Back with chris, who had mastered the art of yeeting horny ships out windows in his spare time, there were more letters and small gifts.

One from eldridge, a lolipop

One from Illinois, a blackhawks logo-wrapped chocolate hockey puck, sweet gal.

A chocolate star from blucher and hipper meta, awwwwww.

The last gift from outside eagle union was from lockhart

"Hey...it looks like I may be on a time limit here, so thank you for helping the royal navy out, monarch says hello"

"All you had to do was not go nuts over tea" Chris said solemnly, though he appreciated the twinings brew package the gift came with.

Then came the final gifts, a chocolate doolittle plane from hornet, a big heart from yorktown, and a chocolate heart and arrow from wasp, with a message from all of them.

"PROPOSE TO HER ALREADY YOU GOLDEN-HAIRED ASSASSIN OF DEPRESSION"

With a deep chuckle and a smile fueled by the appreciation and love radiating from all the lovely gifts, he filed them away neatly in a safe that had "anti-depression resources" written on its side.

And with that, he got up, found the comfiest spot in his office, got out a blanket, collapsed on said spot, and slept happily.

Chapter Text

Annabelle lockhart walks into her office, a bit depressed as she knows she's screwed up royally.

The tea raid has caused the dragon empery to lose even more stability, and brought condemnation to the royal navy, it'll be a miracle if she can keep herself an active navy officer after this.

She walks past Yuni and pets him, his owner holding a box of chocolates for her.

"H-hi b-big sis" Unicorn said nervously, giving her a box of chocolates

"Thank you unicorn" lockhart said with a smile as she accepted them.

Unicorn smiled brightly, sitting on a couch with little bel watching lockhart sit down and preare herself for opening the gifts on her desk.

The first gift comes from chris.

"To the only human on base I'd gladly fuck the lights out of, here's some enya" the note said, lockhart chuckled as she sipped her tea and took out the USB drive.

'Wonder whats on here" Lockhart wondered as she got to her next gifts

"From your oldest sword, here's some fine schnapps -warspite"

"It was fun to ransack dragon empery, we need to do it again -valiant"  The note was attached to a chocolate heart.

The next gift was from the entire illustrious class, a new party gown

"We will never let you go"

The next gift came from the maid corps, a giant chocolate cake, the note being nothing more than a thank you.

Then came several fine teas from the KGV class, including monarch, then several officers, it became clear that throughout the royal navy, nobody wanted her gone.

One gift stood out, from hood, it was a flower.

"Hoooood" Lockhart flushed in embarrassment.

"Forgive me for speaking but.....you're gonna get more of those' Little bel said, pointing to the wrapped packages next to her.

Yeah, it was more flowers, including rare ones from scotland.

Lockhart kept a stiff face, but her eyes betrayed her happiness.

"Guess we all are allowed a major screw up aren't we?" she joked.

The two ships giggled, but then left as they needed to sleep.

The next few gifts came from mikasa (cherry blossom), prinz eugen (beer), Littorio (a rose with the words "PLEASE wingwoman me for the illustrious sisters again :(" attached to it), volga (some diamond rabbits courtesy of soyuz), and the rest just flowed from there.

Eventually, when it was all done, she opened up her last letter, but it didn't have a chocolate attached to it, instead a tentacle erupted from it.

then several emerged, as lockhart stepped back in fright, they popped out a woman.

"Hiya locky~" Royal fortune said as she fixed up her hat.

"R-royal fortune, why did you use a spell-"

Royal Fortune put a gentle finger on lockhart's lips

"I know they want to take you away, we haven't had time to get to know each other yet, and thats not fun" Royal fortune said with a sad smile.

"I-its true....they may get rid of me"

"Well that just wont do, you're fun, I've been told so much about you" Royal fortune huffed

"Same here......I admit you're.....quite a looker" Lockhart said fanning herself

"Aww stop it, I'm just a pirate, but I do have a ship for you to look at, so how about it?" Royal fortune offered

".....I-I-I" Lockhart fainted

Royal fortune snagged her away with a tentacle, and as if there was no one there.

Chapter Text

"O-okay, I can do this, I am not going to mess this up"

That was the mantra being repeated by a well-dressed new and improved battleship, dressed in a red frock that had fit perfectly, carrying a bouquet of flowers and a box of chocolate, she was trying very hard not to get anxiety tears, it would not do to cry.

Her company at this time was busy making sure her hair was well groomed.

"Zona, you've got this" Pennsylvania said, putting a hand on her shoulder, "you have done nothing but be a good person to her, and you have her father's support, ain't that right boss?"

"Yep" chris said, tending to arizona's face, making sure any tear markings were cleaned up

"Illinois is a young girl, she is new to this world, yet she has my compassion, she may not know what love is like, but you can be a great teacher, and if she does know, she may express it in ways one would consider unnatural, yet natural" chris said

"Are you saying that she may love me...even though all I've done is cry in her arms and confess to my troubles?" Arizona asked

"You've given her company and are strong, I fell in love with enty somewhat because I want to be of use to the one I love, and if Illinois is like me in any way, she also thinks you're hot as hell in that enchantress get up" chris teased before getting a bonk from sister penn.

"Hehehe, thanks commander, I p-promise I will do my best" arizona said as chris rubbed his head.

"Just go get her, we got you all dolled up, so if you think about hiding your attentions....don't...it'll be a bad idea" chris cautioned

"got it....well...off I go" arizona walked outside the office door and in the direction of illinois's house.

Pennsylvania sat in a chair and crossed her arms.

"You really want to risk 'zona being heartbroken don't ya?"

"Penn, Illinois will NOT leave her heartbroken, she won't lead her along either, even if she doesn't return the love, I assure you, arizona will not be leaving in tears" chris said with a confidant look.

"If this works, can I be a groomsmaid for you at your wedding?"

"Hell yeah" chris said.

They then did a sis-brofist

One enchanted inch later

Arizona gathered her nerves as she walked up the path to Illinois's cornfield-surrounded house

She clenched her gifts tightly and walked up to the door.

she inhaled, and knocked on the door gently.

within seconds, the door opened, revealing Illinois, wearing a loose fitting eagle union shirt and sweatpants, and having some frazzled hair.

"Oh hey arizona...sorry for my looks...I didnt expect visitors" Illinois said apologetically

"I-its alright, mind if I come in?" Arizona said nervously.

"Sure" Illinois said, then she stared at the bouquet and gift box, as arizona walked in, her mind raced.

"d-did you get that for me?" Illinois said

"Y-yes" Arizona said, laying them gently on a table and sitting down, letting Illinois stare at her dressed form.

Illinois felt a ittle hot and heavy under the collar, and she approached arizona cautiously.

"I......you got all dressed up for me...what did I do to deserve this?" Illinois asked

Arizona realised what chris had meant by illinois possibly not knowing what love is like.

"I-I wasn't aware I needed you to work for my appreciation" Arizona said shyly

Illinois was caught off guard by this.

"w-what?"

"I-illy... you've helped me overcome my trauma about...that awful december day, you've made me feel better and brave enough to fight on, you've listened to me and you helped me use my new abilities to their best...to protect those I care about" arizona said, her face red with shyness.

Illinois was a blushing mess "I..I don't know what to say....I'm new to this world still.....to have someone confess their love like this....I don't know how to react" Illinois said in embarrassment.

"s-sorry....am I being too forward?" Arizona asked worriedly

"N-no...." Illinois said "you've done nothing wrong.....in fact....some of those flowers are flowers I actually like...and your dress reminds me of your enchantress outfit.....it looks great on you" Illinois said

"t-thank you" Arizona said bashfully.

"I...I have to think....please... wait here" Illinois said as she walked to another room and closed the door behind her.

Arizona sighed, and texted chris and pennsylvania

Precious_Pearl: She just ran out of the room...I think I was too much

Sehotec: She needs some space to process everything, thats a good sign

Sister_Penn: how is THAT a good sign?

Sehotec: It means she's thinking it over, meaning she hasn't rejected her

Sister_Penn: I see......

Precious_Pearl: I-is that okay?

Sehotec: She has my former anxiety issues, just let her breathe

Illinois came back, more calm and with her hair well groomed.

"Look, 'zona, I didn't expect this day to go in this direction, but, I also didn't think you'd love me for me...I have spent a lot of time wondering if there is more to my purpose than siren killing, I've gamed, I've helped eagle union out, I've even become my own person, and despite everything...I've enjoyed our meetings, you vent to me and I help you out, but then you come to me sometimes just to give me a little gift and to play games, you've been a great person to me and.....I just dont know what to make of the impression I've left upon you"

Arizona took it all in,.

"You....d-does this mean you love me?"

"...I can't exactly say it but....yes....I'm not sure you'll be the one, I'm not sure if I'm the one for you, but I'm willing to give us a shot, and to start with, I want some of your chocolates" Illinois said with a blep

Arizona felt her anxiety rise at the adorable blep, but sighed in relief

"I'm just happy you accepted me" Arizona said with tears in her eyes

"Damnit 'zona, do I have to kiss those tears away?"

"Maybe~" Arizona said with a mischievous smirk, trying to steel herself

Illinois fell over from that, making arizona laugh a little.

Illinois got back up in an embarrassed huff but did indeed kiss her tears away.

"You didn't say no" Illinois said at the blushing battleship

"N-neither did you, t-thanks for that" Arizona said shyly

"heh, if you had shown up in your enchantress outfit you would've been able to bed me" Illinois admitted without realising it

Arizona laughed out loud

"W-what's so funny?"

"Y-your dad said i-if you were a-anything like him, you'd find that outfit sexy" Arizona said gasping for air.

"CURSE YOU DAAAAAAAAAAAAAD" Illinois screamed out a window

"LOVE YOU TOO SWEETIEEEEEEEEEE" a distant yell replied

"SHUUUUT THE FUUUUUUUUCK UUUUUUUUUP" Indiana yelled out.

Arizona recovered from her laughing fit and hugged Illinois

"You know, my gift box was nothing but chocolates but, want me to feed them to you?" Arizona asked

"....why not" Illinois said

XXXVVVVXXX

The morning after, chris and pennsylvania went to check up on illinois

"Judging by your shouting match last night I think things went well" Pennsylvania said

"Well we can't be too sure" Chris said as he walked in the door.

He was greeted by the sight of Arizona and Illinois playing shogi.

"....holy shit" Pennsylvania said

"Hey DAD, thanks for the chocolate delivery girl" Illinois fake huffed

"Well excuuuse me for wanting it to be delivered safely" Chris said with fake annoyance.

"So....'zona..." Pennsylvania said

"Penn, do you mind? I was trying to kick my girlfriend's butt" Arizona said with a smile that told pennsylvania and chris everything they needed to know

"Okay we can watch this" Chris said

And so they both sat down and watched the game play out, and when it was over, they were able to relax, because those two wouldn't stop complimenting each other.

Chapter Text

"So you're sure its a good idea?"

"I'm sure"

"Everyone likes me....but everyone likes her too, what if...."

"That's a plus for you, heck by that logic I should date her"

"maybe you should drop enterprise and just date us then hehe"

"haha no, but I still say batter up, you get along with her great anyways, and I can tell she is fond of you at least"

"well then, time to see if I strike out or get a home run"

"quite fast ain't ya?"

"NOT THAT KIND OF HOME RUN AAAAAA"

That was the conversation Cleveland had a few hours ago with her commander.

She was now in the batting cage, waiting for someone she had asked to meet alone, it was almost time, surely she wouldn't be too long now.

"Heya Cleve" a heavy cruiser said, making cleveland's heart skip a beat.

Cleveland turned to see her target, baltimore, smiling cool yet a little confused

"Heya balti, glad you could be here" Cleveland said nervously

"I DID have a meeting with the commander about getting some guided missiles, but he cancelled it, apparently something came up" Baltimore explained

Cleveland laughed internally, her external reaction was a nervous chuckle, that smooth bastard

"Guess that worked out for me" Cleveland said, trying to keep cool.

"So why did you want me to come out here to the batting cage, just want to do some batting?"

"Eh you might say I'm trying to score, wanna pitch?" cleveland asked

Baltimore smiled "sounds good"

She got up to the pitchers mound, put on the glove, and threw a splitter, that cleveland hit, flying far, making a manjuu catch it, a double

"Woah, not bad cleve" Baltimore said as a manjuu moved to second base

"Thanks balti" cleveland said, before batting another ball, getting a single

"hm, not as good, but oh well" baltimore said, before throwing a fast ball

Cleveland breathed in and swung, hitting it HARD, causing a triple, enough for 2 points.

"NICE ONE" Baltimore said

"t-thank you balti" cleveland said, blushing

"you know cleve, I was thinking, with the modernisation, the commander seems hell bent on keeping us all around, so how about we team up with him for a cruiser task force strategy as part of the joint strategy initiative charles has for us" Baltimore said as she threw another pitch

Cleveland got distracted by the thought of working with baltimore on something like that and missed her swing, getting a strike

"Uhhhh..." Baltimore said

"S-SORRY, g-got distracted" Cleveland said nervous as she readied her bat again

"You completely blanked...you alright?"

"I'm fine, I'm peachy even" Cleveland said, but her next swing was a foul ball

"Look if you don't want to, thats fine"

"N-no I do want to work with you, I always do, you're amazing at what you do and we work well together" Cleveland said, tapping her bat to get baltimore to throw

"Thanks cleve, but.....something's on your mind" baltimore said, readying her pitch.

"YOU'RE ON MY MIND" Cleveland said in the heat of the moment, making baltimore slip her pitch, a ball.

"w-what?" Baltimore asked, slightly flustered

"AAAAAH SORRY" Cleveland dropped her bat in a panic but regained her composure quick

"Cleveland what do you mean by that?" Baltimore asked

Cleveland shuddered a bit but inhaled and exhaled to calm down

"Balti" she said as she walked up close, "you are the best heavy cruiser in the world, we've been through thick and thin, sortieing together, hunting sirens, organising sports tournaments, winning them even, being admired by all, we talk about so much, and I...." cleveland drifted off

Baltimore, a bit perplexed, waited for cleveland to finish, but cleveland's expression changed, like she was silently saying "fuck it"

Before baltimore could realise it, cleveland kissed her full on the lips and left a rose in her hair before running off at the speed of light

"SORRYBALTIAAAAAA" she could be heard saying in a panic

The flustered heavy cruiser was easy to confuse for a tomato at that moment, she picked out the rose and held it to her heart.

"Cleveland........WHAT THE FUCK!?"

The next day.....

Cleveland was screaming into a pillow, she screwed it up, she had tried to be traditional but bungled it, and she couldn't face anyone in shame

"STUPID STUPID STUPID LIGHT CRUISER, YOU ARE MADE OF STUPID STEEL, YOU'RE FUELED BY STUPID, YOU STUPID STUPID STUPID STUPID" her words a bit muffled

Columbia was trying to figure out what was wrong but she had been locked out of cleveland's room

"I-is she alright?" Biloxi asked

"I have no idea" Columbia said with a sigh

"I don't think she's okay, she ran into our dorm red as hell and proceeded to scream herself to sleep" Birmingham opined

"I'll have to ask our commander if he knows anything" Denver said, typing him a message

She got a quick response, which made her chuckle

"He doesn't quite know what went down but he suspects she tried to be girly"

Everyone had a sisterly laugh at their older sister's expense.

Cleveland, very familiar with that kind of laugh, screamed even more.

XXXXVVVVXXXX

Baltimore on the other hand, was asking the commander what the heck she should do.

"ah this takes me back to when I confessed to enterprise" chris said with a chuckle

"wait how did you?"

"At night, in my dorm, nervously, with a plush of me for her to carry with her" Chris said, smiling nostalgically

"Wow, for some reason I thought you were more theatrical about it" Baltimore admitted

"Eh not my thing, I'm blunt and honest, I told her she didn't have to accept my love, yet she did anyway and even made a plush of herself for me" he said, pointing to the plush on his desk which was holding a stuffed phoenix, a smile on the plush's face newly stitched on

"S-so what do I do?" Baltimore asked

"Well, I could call her into this office, what do you think?"

"I-I don't know.....she just kissed me and ran.....was she just playing with me?"

"No, she meant it" Chris said, "she asked me for advice, and clearly deviated since what she said was NOT part of my advice"

"w-wait so, she actually loves me?" Baltimore asked, in a blush

"Yep, what are you gonna do about it" chris asked with a smile

".......get her in here please"

Chris made the call.

XXXXVVVVXXXX

Cleveland soon walked in

"Y-you wanted to se- OH JEEZ OH CRAP" Cleveland curled up into a flustered ball seeing Baltimore sitting there

"Relax, she wanted me to call you here, now if you excuse me, I have a date with shoukaku in an hour, toodles~" chris said as he hurried out the door, locking it so nobody would drop in unexpectedly

when he was gone, cleveland unrolled

"I-I'm sorry about last night"

"As you should be, you don't leave a girl like that" Baltimore said with a gentle scold

Cleveland cringed, here it comes

"Cleve, you didn't even let me respond, that was rude" Baltimore said, getting up to kneel down to her.

"I-I-I-I-I-I"

She was shut up by a kiss to the lips

"T-there, n-now you're forgiven" Baltimore said, pulling away

after about 5 seconds, she processed what she just did and did a girlish scream "AAAA I'M SORRY"

Cleveland got over her nerves and laughed "balti I didn't know you could scream like that"

"I-IF YOU WAITED YOU'D HAVE KNOWN SOONER" Baltimore blushed furiously

Cleveland, nervous but understanding, approached Baltimore

"W-well...guess that means..."

"Y-yes......now let's just avoid each other for the next few thousand years so our sisters dont tease us" Baltimore said

"make it a million and we're good" Cleveland joked

Baltimore just laughed, they locked lips in another nervous kiss, before deciding to hide from their sisters for about a week, chris covered for them by having them out on a sortie.

Chapter Text

Cleveland was busy trying not to scream into a damn pillow.

It had only been...god who knows anymore is time just an illusion caused by the sirens to conduct communo-fascist monarchism with capitalist intent?

Either way, she was huffing and trying to keep cool.

It was a nervous time for her, she had just gotten converted into a type II cleveland, her guns had become high-DPS laser cannons in the style of her old guns, she had SAM systems and other AA weaponry fit for a modern light cruiser, but more importantly, she had gotten this conversion around the same time as her girlfriend did.

Baltimore, now a guided missile heavy cruiser, had replaced one of her 55 MK. 15 turrets with an anti-missile array, her other 55 MK. 15 turrets were replaced with 55 RF MK. 16s, same 203mm caliber, but much faster reload, she had apparently also been given an upgraded radar and a generally more buff rigging, the thought of what she looked like now was making cleveland think things.

Her mind was filled, imagining baltimore more muscular, more fit, and wearing a dominatrix outfit, waving a finger at her, gesturing for her to come closer "mommy balti has something for you~"

Cleveland screamed into a pillow, "BEGONE NAUGHTY THOUGHTS" cleveland said, albeit muffled.

It wasn't like she hadn't had a buffer build herself, she was more toned and fit, and a little "bigger" in some areas, the fact she was wearing something more effeminate made her feel more comfortable about herself.

"Its fine, its fine, its not like we're getting married and I'll see her in her wedding outfit- AAAAAAAAAAAAA" she screamed imagining that, the poor pillow.

XXXXVVVVXXXX

Baltimore for her part was just as blushy

"Don't think about it, don't think about what she could look like, don't think about her butt- OH THERE I GO AGAIN" she screamed internally, her face ferociously blushing.

She had kept the rose cleveland gave her in her hair, and was trying to mentally prepare herself for seeing cleveland's new look.

It also didn't help that SOMEBODY had accepted her request for a booking at his bistro for that night, HOW DARE HE, now she was even MORE nervous.

"*sigh* get it together baltimore, not like bremerton is gonna follow you..." she exhaled and walked out, ready to fine her lad.

XXXXVVVVXXXX

They both were walking to the common room for eagle union, some people were there, but it didn't matter, they wanted to see the new and improved cruisers too, especially illinois, saratoga, and enterprise.

They both got into the common room.

Cleveland waved at the eager battleship, and then her eyes locked with baltimore's

They both stared at each other, Cleveland was looking more feminine, she had a dress for once and she seemed taller, and yeah, dat stern.

Baltimore indeed was more muscular, and more fit in the arms, and her hair was a bit longer, but that damn flower on her head.

Both of them blushed like tomatoes.

"Uhh..uhh...Ahhh.....HOTDAMN" they both said, nearly fainting but illinois and chris swept behind them and held them up.

They were both blushing mad and chris sighed

"Okay you two...." he said, before he and illinois put them on a couch together.

"let's go ladies, give them some space" he told everyone else, who nodded and everyone promptly left, leaving the cruisers alone.

When they were all gone, the cruisers stared at each other.

"S-so...you look great" Baltimore said

"S-so do you" Cleveland said

"R-reall? t-thanks cleve...." baltimore said, her blush intense

"Say something else you idiot light cruiser"

Cleveland cleared her throat.

"Uhh, t-the rose seems to be leaking onto your face"

"DAMNIT, YOU ABSOLUTE IDIOT"

Baltimore was confused "its not, I'm just nervous..."

"Nice work baltimore, your honesty is about to blow it...."

Cleveland let out a nervous laugh "m-me too, d-didn't expect you to be so hot..."

"WHY WOULD YOU SAY THAT DUMBASS"

"WAIT I DONT MEAN I THOUGHT YOU'D BE UGLY I JUST AAAAAGH" Cleveland buried her face into the couch to scream

Baltimore collected her thoughts

"She didn't meant to offend, you got this, compliment her appearance, be effeminate about it"

"Y-your butt gets me wet"

"YOU ARE MADE OF STUPID, YKW? I GIVE UP, GET ANOTHER INNER THOUGHT PERSON, I'M OUT"

Cleveland screamed even more into the pillow before finding a nearby glass of water and chugging it down.

"ImeanthankyoubutwhydidyousaythatisthatwhatyoulikebestaboutmychangeImeanitsnicethatIlookgoodbutAAAAAAAA" Cleveland said in a rushed blabbing moment before downing another glass of water.

Baltimore was blushing in shame "S-SORRY YOU LOOK GOOD AND ARE BEAUTIFUL, BUT YOU'RE STILL THE SAME CLEVE I LOVE ALL THE SAME SO PLEASE DONT DUMP ME OVER THIS" Baltimore screamed out incredibly girl-like

Cleveland exhaled, and let baltimore calm down a little.

"You look hotter than I do though....." Cleveland said

"I-I do?" Baltimore asked confused, her blush still high

"I-I mean I think so...." Cleveland said with an equally intense blush

"T-thank you, i-if it helps I was worried you'd think I wasn't worth it anymore"

That was a lie but baltimore lied to help cleveland feel less nervous, not that it helped HER.

"Oh you...." Cleveland said with a small frown

"S-sorry I just...wait..what are you- A-AH AAAAAHHHH" *smooch*

Cleveland gave baltimore a shut-up kiss.

Baltimore melted into it after the nerves were dealt with, but cleveland pulled back quickly

"I-I'm sorry for being so sudden.."

"D-don't worry about it, I know this is jarring b-but....cleve....how about we celebrate our refit?"

"Oh?"

"Yeah I-I booked us a table at jade bistro...h-hope you dont mind me asking if you'd like to go on a dinner d-dd-d-d-date" Baltimore said nervously

Cleveland's heart skipped a few beats but she kept her composure

"I-I'd love to, s-shall I wear my suit?"

"N-no, you can use my dress, I-I'd prefer to wear a suit myself" Baltimore said

Cleveland screamed internally but did a short exhale of glee

"I-I'm not your size though..."

"I-I'm sure b-bremerton can make one for you, I-I'll ask her for a suit..." Baltimore said.

That when a cannon was rolled in and shot a suit at baltimore, and a dress at cleveland

"Made a set of each with help from the commander, go get 'em sis" Bremerton said, the cannon being rolled back out.

That night....

Cleveland was dolled up in a fine black dress with a blue rose in her hair, she waited for Baltimore to show up at the bistro.

She didn't have to wait long as an eagle dropped her right next to cleveland

"GRIMM YOU SHIPPING BASTARD-" Baltimore screeched before noticing cleveland

Her nose JUST BARELY stopped itself from bleeding, Cleveland was stunned seeing Baltimore rocking the black tuxedo look.

"Y-you clean up well" Baltimore said

"s-so do you" Cleveland replied back, their nerves settling

"I-I guess ladies first?" Baltimore said, opening the door

Cleveland said nothing but smiled, taking Baltimore's hand as she walked past, getting them both into the bistro, which had become an entire building instead of the old shack it was before.

Several well dressed fletchers were handing food to people, several cooks were making meals.

And chris was in the back screaming.

"WHERE'S THE FUCKING MANJUU SAUCE"

Baltimore chuckled, saratoga must've snuck into the kitchen again.

She escorted Cleveland to their table, no need for a waiter

They got sat down and exhaled to ease their nerves, being the cool lassies they were known to be for once.

"Not a bad spot balti" Cleveland said, admiring the candle on their table, a litwick-styled candle....at least I think its just styled like that.

"Thank you, asked the commander himself during the booking, I know he runs the place after all" Baltimore grinned

"I feel like he's a massive shipper- that dad joking bastard" Cleveland started laughing, a sight that baltimore found adorable, and slightly contagious

"You're thinking too hard cleve, though considering others, how's the family life?" Baltimore asked

"My sisters are all lining up for their refits, Columbia is hoping to fly a confederate battle flag with hers......" Cleveland said

"Her namesake must be real proud...." Baltimore said with a side glance

"Well that's all I can say on that, Biloxi's eager to have an upgraded AA system, Denver's glad to be able to differ from me, Montpelier wants to do what I do, but little rock? she wants to shoot things" Cleveland giggled

Baltimore chuckled warmly, right as a waitress showed up.

"Good evening, I will be your waitress for this evening"

"Washington!?"

"S-SHUT UP AND LET ME TAKE YOUR ORDERS" Washington said embarrassed.

"The menu's quite varied" Baltimore said looking at the list.

They both scanned it, and then stared at the same section

"Couples pasta?"

Washington nodded "I know you didnt order that yet but its a massive helping of pasta meant to be shared"

Baltimore and Cleveland smiled

"well cleve?"

"can we have the squid ink variety?"

"sure"

Washington wrote that down

"I'll take a side of garlic bread" Baltimore said

"I'll take the same" Cleveland replied

"drinks?" Washington asked

"Tall glasses of sparkling white grape juice" Baltimore said, cleveland nodded

washington wrote that down and soon, manjuus came with the orders

"wow, they're quick" cleveland said as she marveled at the massive order

"somebody's been franchising" Baltimore said with a slight chuckle as she dug in.

The squid ink noddles were ink black but well seasoned, sauced, and with plenty of meatballs to go around.

"So uhhh, how about YOUR sisters?" Cleveland asked after awhile

"w-well, they're not as keen, Bremerton is okay with it but Pittsburgh finds it all boring....Canberra is very eager though, probably wanting to seem more like who she was named after, boston though? she doesn't like the idea of wielding missiles, and Los Angeles only wants to outdo San Francisco, Quincy though....." Baltimore paused

"That's right....they merged didn't they...." Cleveland said, "I'm...sorry..."

"N-no its fine, they're both fine...they're.....fine...." Baltimore paused again

WERE they fine? Quincy 1 and Quincy 2 were heavy cruisers, and due to having been alive at the same time, when they met, their concepts were different, but when they met at base, they merged.

This had been a source of pain and misery for the New Orleans and Baltimore classes alike, these two concepts had gone off the deep end and were insane, more off kilter than emden.

Cleveland extended a hand to Baltimore "you should tell him, he can fix this....he'll gladly try to anyway"

Baltimore shook her head "not right now...l-let's just enjoy the day"

Cleveland nodded and they resumed eating

Their conversation topic changed quickly

"So you're saying these harpoons could help us stuff purifier's mouth before she runs it off?" Cleveland asked crudely

"Yep, a good thing too, was getting tired of her trying to challenge us to a debate and calling us cringe, I'm not cringe, SHE IS" Baltimore asserted, earning a laugh from her date.

"The laser guns you have though, I wonder why I don't have such a main battery" Baltimore said

"According to the commander, my laser guns trade power for speed, meaning they can pack a punch AND can easily destroy pawns, but against bigger ships it wont be as good" Cleveland said

Baltimore nodded "Guess that makes sense, call you for the AA and destroyer screening, call me for fire support and screening of lesser cruiser constructs"

Cleveland nodded "And the best thing about it is that we have supercruisers for general assault or attack force command, we'll be unstoppable once the refits are finished" she said with a big smile

Baltimore smiled back "a toast then, to justice and kicking siren ass"

They did a toast, drank from their sparkling grape juice glasses, and began to eat again.

Unbeknownst to then, the pasta noodle they had decided to slurp into was the same one they other had.

It pulled them closer, and closer, and closer, until their lips met in a kiss right over the candle.

When both of them realised what had happened, their reaction was shock, brain crash, and then internal screaming and furious blushing.

"HOW DID SHE DO THAT"

That was their shared thought process, the embarrassment at doing that in front of others was palpable.

They both wondered what to do next, apologise? for what? AAAAAGH

They both turned to each other.

"......wanna do it again?" Cleveland asked

Baltimore would've spat out her drink if she had been sipping it, but since she wasn't she coughed in shock.

But regained her composure and said "sure"

And so they did again, the date was smooth after that.

XXXXXVVVVVXXXXX

The dinner was over and it was time to head back to the dorms.

"Thanks for the dinner, it was delicious" Cleveland said

"Thanks for accepting my invitation, kind of wanted to be more romantic about it B-BUT ITS FINE" Baltimore said.

"heh, romance isn't our strong suit is it?" Cleveland said with a chuckle

"guess not, we'll figure out our love language soon enough though" Baltimore said

"Yep, so if you dont mind, I shall speak it now" Cleveland then stole Baltimore's lips for a quick kiss and then zoomed away to her dorm room.

"NOT AGAIN" Baltimore faux wailed, before laughing the blush away all the way back to her dorm.

Cleveland was laughing too, knight sniffed the air and rolled back to sleep, happy his owner seemed to have enjoyed herself.

Chapter Text

On the beach near the base, at sundown, Blücher jumps into the sea for a good ol' swim on her narwhal-esque rigging.

Just an average sundown swim for the chipper hipper cruiser, humming "every time we touch" to herself, letting her narwhal jet around and letting the spray of the water splatter around her skin.

she did a couple tricks to pass the time, loop de loop, spy hopping, breaching, all good fun.

Little did she know, she was being watched.

daaaaa-dum

daaaaa-dum

daaa-dum

da-dum da-dum da-dum da-dum da-dum da-dum da-dum da-dum da-dum da-dum da-dum da-dum


The music grew louder as a fin rose above the water and approached Blücher quietly, until it jumped her and dragged her underwater, causing her to emit a scream.

*silence*

After awhile, Blücher rose up from under the water and got on her rigging, causing it to enter full ship mode as she gasped out some water, the "shark" affectionately hugging her.

"SPEEEEE DON'T DO THAT" Blücher whined

Graf spee continued hugging Blücher, her eyes sparkling with love "shark attack...successful" she said softly

Blücher pouted, her girlfriend was being cute again, too damn cute.

"Spee just because you're being adorable doesn't mean you can get away with nearly drowning me" Blücher said

"sorry......" graf spee said with puppy dog eyes

oh now that was just unfair.

"spee stop being cute, its not fair, I wanna be mad" Blücher whined

"nein" Graf spee said, hugging Blücher tighter

"Alright, you asked for it" Blücher thought to herself and then went limp dramatically.

Spee felt Blücher going limp, she tried hugging her tighter but Blücher only went more liump

"short....breath...." Blücher wheezed

Graf spee loosened her hug immediately, worried she had actually hurt Blücher

"I-I'm sorry I didn't mean to-"

*smooch*

Graf spee didn't get to finish her sentence as she was given a full lip attack courtesy of her playful lieben.

"hehe, all better~" Blücher said as spee turned red with pouty anger

"You...tricky.....blondie" spee said before she jumped Blücher and began tickling her

"HEHEHEH NEINNNNNN" Blücher said as she fell victim to another shark attack.

One that ended up with her being fed wonderful chocolates and some steak, and eventually, being allowed on board graf spee's ship, becoming a hug toy for the shark as she slept.













Oh and, *neigh*, I guess

Chapter Text

It was a rare sight to see, the HMS hood was docked, and looked pristine, next to her was the HMS King George V, both ships looked absolutely gorgeous, but below the deck of the hood was where the action was.

And not the action you'd expect, more a tea service, for hood had two guests, george, and a blonde haired idiot that had been invited over.

"I must say this is a fine tea" Chris said, gently putting the cup down.

"I'm glad you like it, a lady must always be able to serve her guest a fine cup of tea" Hood said.

"then we better find one" chris muttered to himself, ready to get hit with a claymore, but no claymore came.

Because George was desperately trying to hold her lover's claymore back

"NO DEAR NO, HE'S NOT WORTH IT" she screamed desperately

"AG'M GAUNNAE FUCK THIS BLONDIE UP HIS ARSE WI' MA KNIFE!" Hood shouted in a fit of anger.

Chris laughed like a guy who knew he was about to die.

"Sorry hood couldnt resist seeing if it was true" chris said.

KGV kissed hood on the cheek to calm her down back to her proper state of mind.

"Lost my cool there, my apologies" Hood said.

"You know, when I came here, I was curious, I wanted to know who was dating who, because I wanted to be sure I didn't accidentally flirt with someone who was taken" chris said

"yet when you're with eugen..." KGV pointed out

"Yes, but thats because she constantly bends over, literally, to mess with me, its fine" chris said, trying not to think about it.

Hood giggled thinking about chris of all people trying not to think about sexy eugen, he had a reputation for being honest about his feelings, hell he had once told hood that he felt undeserving of her presence, even moreso with bismarck in the room.

Bismarck.....surely he was going to ask about that, he surely knew by now, he even offered to help with therapy if there was any lingering grudge, but did he know?

Chris turned to look at hood directly, catching on that she was lost in thought.

"Hood, I did want to ask"

"here it comes" she said to herself, she steeled herself for the question

"How did you and king george get together anyway?"

Hood nearly fell over in surprise, she didnt expect that question.

"Goodness I thought you were about to ask about bismarck and myself..." Hood said, straightening herself up.

"Oh I'm curious about that, even asked her about it, she didn't want to talk about it so I left it at that" chris said

"I see......well unfortunately, how me and my beautiful knight here" hood said as she pulled KGV to her side for some comfort, which she gave in the form of a protective hug, "got together, relates to bismarck"

Chris sighed, "I see......lemme guess, rage over the battle?"

"What kind of cliche do you take us for?" King George V said with a snarky grin.

"So you DIDN'T realise your feelings after hood sank?" Chris asked

"Nope, we weren't a thing before then either, actually our story begins sometime after bismarck returned" George V said, taking off her coat, a sign of casualness.

Hood nodded "When i got revived, Bismarck was the first person to see me, I still remember that day....when the commander wanted us to begin reconciliation, eugen and prince of wales went off to chat...I think....but bismarck had me pinned with her stare"

Flashback....

Hood stood in front of the iron blood battleship, her new rigging pet, geryon, chewing on some siren metal.

She felt a rush of emotions looking at the one who betrayed azur lane, she couldn't quite put it to words, but Bismarck seemed to be....off.

"Hallo Hood" Bismarck said in her usual stoic voice.

"Hello" Hood replied with faux stoicness.

Bismarck averted her eyes for a moment, and dropped her shoulders.

"I'm sorry"

*citadel hit*

"You're WHAT?" Hood exclaimed loudly in shock, shaking the meeting place with her shock, causing some kansen to overhear

Bismarck didn't flinch.

"For sinking you, and for betraying azur lane, I was a fool for believing the sirens..." Bismarck said, "I can't forgive them for convincing me like that"

Hood had sat down in disbelief, Bismarck wasn't able to express emotions all that well, it was hard to believe she could just outright admit something like this.

Bismarck sighed "Hood, I'm sorry for the pain I've caused you, and I hope to make it up to you, and everyone else" Bismarck said, sitting on geryon's left head.

Prinz Eugen came back with someone in tow, KGV

"Bismarck, are you harassing Hood?" King George V asked somewhat jokingly "or do I have call rodney"

Bismarck stiffened "n-nein...just-"

"She apologised" Hood said

King George V sat down with a nod, turning to Eugen.

"So its true what you said about Bismarck....."

"Ja, we're all ready to make amends, genuine amends" Eugen said, her face clouded

Bismarck sighed "Unfortunately, I owe it to spare some bad news"

Hood looked at her confused

"Look, I, I was the one that brought your body back here" Bismarck said

Hood nodded "thats not bad news....."

Bismarck sighed "true......but....when eugen went to search.....we found a body next to it..." she said, looking at King George V.

Hood felt a pain grow inside her heart.

She hadn't seen Holland her entire time awake, and King George V had a rare frown.

"Who did you find?" Hood asked anxiously.

"Holland's" Bismarck said.

Hood's face was figuratively split in two, and for the next hour or so, she was inconsolable.

XXXVVVVXXX

"Must've been hard for her to say that"

"It was" Hood said acknowledging Chris, "she left soon after, George stayed behind to explain how they seemed on cordial terms, apparently she was next on the list of kansen Bismarck wanted to see"

King George V nodded, "Lindemann's body was found shortly after the battle, Bismarck cursed herself for not telling him to stay behind, but Lutjens had decided and that was that"

Chris nodded "so....how does this relate back to you and Hood?"

"Sometime later, I was able to rejoin the royal navy full time, Bismarck and I talked a fair bit during meetings, and then one day"

XXXVVVVXXX

Bismarck was sitting on her throne overlooking a ball and Hood approached her

"Why aren't you dancing?" Hood asked

"Nobody's asked" Bismarck said

"Oh come on go out and dance with someone, why not Tirpitz?" Hood asked

Bismarck pointed to a white-cloathed battleship currently icing Victorious, much to Enterprise's dismay

"Ah...you may want to go down there before they start-"

An icy arrow whizzed past them

"Gottverdamnt" Bismarck said, before with a sigh she chucked a sword between Tirpitz and Enterprise

They both stared at Bismarck and politely parted

Hood was shocked by bismarck's strength

"My lord....that was..." Hood said with a fluster

Bismarck didn't react physically, but verbally

"I'm quite strong for a battleship, which is also why I don't dance, barely anyone can match my strength when I cut loose" Bismarck said

"I bet I could" Hood said

Bismarck looked at her with a raised eyebrow after getting a drink.

"You think you could handle me in a far fight?" Bismarck asked

"I haven't properly faced you in a battle yet, and seeing your strength reminded me, I need to kick yer arse" Hood said with a noticeably more gaelic accent towards the end.

Bismarck raised her eyebrow higher

"You're a battlecruiser, I'm a battleship, I am more durable" Bismarck said

Hood raised a claymore "want to find out?" she challenged

Bismarck smiled "I do have another sword" Bismarck got out said sword

All the ball attendees looked at the two readying their swords, but before they could react both of them had vanished to the challenge yard.

Bismarck and Hood dueled amongst the waves near the shore, with them crossing blades.

"Bring it on, kraut!" Hood said in a scottish rage as Bismarck parried

"BRING IT ON ROYAL WENCH" Bismarck said in the heat of it.

They continued clashing swords until Bismarck shattered Hood's claymore

Hood dropped her top hat and coat, storing them in her rigging she spaned

"ye've done it noo" Hood said, "Ah'm gonnae mak ye naething but the VERRA NAME O' YER NATION!" Hood said before firing her salvos in double time, her secondaries rocketing off like machine guns.

Bismarck responded with her own secondary gunfire, summoning geryon for a full salvo that ripped past Hood who started shouting scottish obscenities

"WHERE WAS THIS WOMAN BEFORE" Bismarck asked in a taunting tone as she fired her guns

"IN YER CLOSET WI' A KNIFE!" Hood roared as she kept firing.

Bismarck smirked and fired a warheit salvo that blew up Hood's left turrets

Hood got even more pissed and rushed Bismarck with the shattered claymore, full shank mode.

Bismarck dodged as Hood rushed past, making her fall into the sand.

Hood got back up and motioned for Bismarkc to bring it on

"I CAN HANDLE ALL FIVE OF YA" Hood said as she charged again

Bismarck rushed forward to meet her, they both clashed.

*some time later*

Hood was naked on Bismarck's bed in a pleasure coma while Bismarck drank some beer.

"Can't even handle one of me~" Bismarck said as she slid her coat back on.

XXXVVVXXX

Chris had plugged his nose with a tissue because of the nosebleed he got.

Hood was shaking in anxiety

"Y-yeah uhhh.....that started a hot passionate relationship, she was great" Hood said rubbing the back of her neck.

King George V looked like she didn't want to know Hood at the moment

"I.....well that explains how it happened...somehow...but YIKES my lady" George V said

Chris nodded

King George V sighed

"But well, Bismarck and Hood ended up arguing, a lot......and then things got violent after a sortie gone wrong" King George V said, looking at Hood before continuing once she nodded.

"and after the repairs...well....."

XXXVVVXXX

Hood was sobbing in her dorm as King George V walked in.

"Go away, I'm a stain upon the royal navy's honor" Hood said, not looking up

"Hood, you're not going to stop if you keep crying on your room" King George V said

King George V looked at the room, it looked like a tornado had gone through it.

She decided to clean it up, noticing a picture of Hood and Holland which had broken

She silently put the frame and the photo away in her pocket.

"Hood, you need to listen, what happened wasn't your fault, its never been..."

Hood turned to KGV "You don't understand, I got hurt by the one I loved most, and I hurt HER too, I don't know who to blame, how to react, and I wish holland was here, I wish I could take it all back, WHERE THE BLOODY HELL IS MY COMMANDER" she broke down again, sobbing into KGV's chest

KGV just stood there letting Hood cry it all out.

And when she was done, she fell asleep and KGV silently walked out the dorm, talking to to belfast

"She's going through a lot, the dorm's a mess, I'll take over cleaning it..." KGV said

"why not just let me?" Belfast asked

"Because a maid is expected to be where she's needed at all times, and a lot of people need a maid" KGV said, walking off.

Some time later Hood woke up and saw her picture with holland restored, with a new frame, gilded even.

A note was left by it

"I can't bring him back, but I can make sure you never forget him, and by the way, there's another photo in the frame, KGV"

Hood, curious, found the secret photo, and when she noticed it, she was stunned.

It was a photo of KGV and Tovey, standing over a grave

There was a caption on the bottom

"A grave Bismarck claims to have made"

Hood teared up again, but steeled herself, and made a call to King George V

when KGV showed up, Hood was there with the photo.

"Why didn't you tell me you made a grave for him?" Hood asked

"Because you refused to come to the funeral" KGV said

Hood felt guilty

"I made a meal for you, you'll feel better with a good meal inside you" KGV said

Hood raised her arm to smack KGV for being stupid, but when she looked at her arm, it looked wilted

She gasped in horror.

"You're wilting...and you're eating" KGV said, pulling Hood out by her coat

At the dining hall, Hood was gorging on several meals, and KGV was cooking more up.

Sometime during the gorging, Hood moved to speak

"I...didn't realise how much I had neglected myself..." Hood said

"And I didn't realise how badly I needed to get you out of your room, you can't spend the day sobbing, you're a lady of the court, you should know better" King George V lightly taunted

"I'm sorry, its just....so much..." Hood said, sounding in pain

KGV nodded "You did lose a lot, you've lost a girlfriend, you've lost your captain, you've lost a lot of sailors, and you're losing your vision, but....we're going to lose a beloved member of the royal navy if things don't change" she pointed out

XXXXVVVVXXXX

"In hindsight....I think I doomed someone else to death with that jinx" KGV said

XXXXVVVVXXXX

Hood looked at her plate in thought.

"But how can...how can I make it up to everyone I've hurt" Hood said, "I've been trapped in my own traumas for so long..."

King George V sighed "you can try to move on with your life, the wounds run deep, and you tried to fix them by dating the pain...it only made the wound worse"

Hood nodded "but....I can't blame her"

"I'm not going to either, she's been asking how you've been, she says she just wants to reconcile"

Hood froze....and thought long and hard.

eventually she made a choice.

"Is USS Enterprise able to host a little meeting?"

XXXVVVXXX

"Enty lent her ship for you two to reconcile!?" Chris asked

"Yes, she was reluctant at first because she just broke up with Victorious and Belfast, and wanted to distance herself from the royal navy affairs for a bit, but changed her mind after some time" Hood said

"It was there I apologised to Bismarck, but I refused Bismarck's apology" Hood continued

"why?"

"She already had, and it was good enough for me" Hood replied

"Time after that, I talked with King George V a lot, because tovey heard about my situation"

XXXVVVXXX

"Hood, I nearly got court martialed because I ordered wales to retreat, so I say this, I'm sorry I couldn't save you, and to make up for it I've given you vacation time so you can recover" Tovey said

Hood nodded and hugged him.

After the hug she went to visit King George V

"A vacation...where shall we vacation too?" Hood said

"we? you're the one with vacation time, I didn't get any" KGV said

"wrong" Hood said, revealing her official notification, KGV was mentioned

".....eire, its lovely this time of year"

And so they went, and one night, under the moon, they enjoyed the moonlight in each others embrace.

XXXVVVXXX

"It...got a bit romantic" Hood said with a blush

Chris applauded "nice"

KGV sighed "so...thats basically how we got together...I know it seems jagged but...we're trying to avoid mentioning a lot because its easier on nimu-"

"Call me that and I'll shank you" Hood said with a threatening glare

KGV "okay okay....ue" she said before laughing

"OH YOU'RE GONNA GET IT' Hood said as she wrestled with King George V

Chris quickly left before Hood managed to fuck George raw with a dildo

Chapter Text

"I remember the day she came to pearl harbor, she dropped in from one of her own bombers, she would always do that, because it got my attention, and later, because I smiled"

"Tovey I don't care how you get one here just do so, we need more carriers and we need them NOW"

"One's already on her way, she'll be there soon, just make sure your carrier survives"

"That wont be a problem, my girl's tougher than the entire sakuran navy"

Halsey put the phone down gently, and turned to his girl.

A ragged, dust-covered, bandaged, slightly bloodied girl.

"Six, I've marked them down on the signboard" Enterprise said, her voice completely monotone

Halsey nodded "ellie, that's good, thats six less japs to worry about, six steps closer to the end" he said

Enterprise nodded and walked out of the room with a salute, not even waiting to be dismissed.

Halsey got out a cigar and lit it up, it was not uncommon, but after santa cruz, it had been one of many ways to cope with seeing enterprise like this, he couldn't wait to get saratoga flying high again, she didn't like seeing enterprise like this either, nobody liked it.

But nobody could fix it, and every time she heard that more carriers were coming, people kept making sure she didn't have access to a rope or her tie, not that it mattered, she was trying in every battle anyway, just to be with her sisters.

Maybe with the royal navy coming in to help, somebody could get enterprise to smile, or at least FEEL something good.

As he sat there, watching the scoreboard update, the crews patting enterprise on the back and seeing her practice her aiming, there was one thought on his mind.

"How can I stop what I've created?"

XXXXVVVVXXXX

Some time later, as Enterprise was being checked over by vestal, again, Halsey entered the room.

"Sir, she's fit and ready to go...again" Vestal said

"Good work, but thats not what I'm here" He said, then he turned to enterprise, who looked at him with confusion, why would he be here to see his weapon if it wasnt for telling her where to point herself.

"Ellie" he said, "there's an ally coming to see you today, she'll be helping you from now on until the essex class gets here"

Enterprise looked down "oh...tell her I don't need help"

"That's the biggest lie I've heard since hitler said he'd stop after the czechoslovakia partition" Halsey said firmly, "You're getting all the help you can get, the sooner this war ends, the sooner you can stop killing, and we can live as a family"

Enterprise looked out the window "as if I deserve such a peace..."

XXXXXVVVVXXXXX

Enterprise got herself cleaned up in the showers, some battleships tried talking to her

"Hey enterprise, wanna go out for drinks after this? you can spot for me in the gym too if ya want" Indiana asked

"Enterprise, if you want, we can go fishing" South Dakota said

"If ya wanna fight for the fun of it, I'm game" Washington said

But enterprise didn't respond and just left

"That girl needs a break" Indiana said

"We all do Indy" Washington said

XXXXVVVVXXXXX

As enterprise got dressed, finally, someone entered

"Hello enterprise, I'm HMS Victorious, and I'm here to help" Victorious said with a chipper tone

"You can start by getting out of my way so I can go to my ship" Enterprise replied with that same monotone.

Victorious's face turned neutral.

"What's with the frown? you got a gorgeous lady with you, now let's go fight some sakurans" Victorious said as she yanked Enterprise out of her room and down to the docks.

As saratoga was coming in to pearl harbor, she saw Victorious pulling enterprise by her arm as she slid across the dockyard.

"Seems you have less trouble with her than we do" Saratoga said with a grin

"I'm not a pancake so it comes naturally" Victorious teased, causing Saratoga to chase her with a comically large mallet as Enterprise laid on the ground not moving.

Despite her....mood, she did eventually get up to watch Saratoga chase Victorious around the dock.

But as she did, she saw something else, a silver haired carrier angrily chasing a blonde carrier around, the blonde carrier having a cookie jar in her hand

"HORNEEEEET, YOU KNOW TOO MANY COOKIES IS BAD FOR YOU" Yorktown's voice echoed

"Of course, because it makes big sis angry~" Hornet teased back

Snapping back to reality, Enterprise shook her head as Victorious ran up to her, putting a hand on her shoulder and panting

"By *pant* the way *pant* the navy *pant* has decided *pant* to hand me over *pant* to yours *pant* as USS robin *pant*"

Enterprise stared at her as Saratoga collapsed behind her

"You'll be terrible in battle, but very well "robin", let's go" she ordered, climbing up to her ship.

Victorious jumped up on enterprise's ship as well and gawked at it

"Wow you've survived this long on this? you don't even have deck armoring, how do you expect to survive?" Victorious asked

"Hasn't stopped me before" Enterprise replied, Saratoga coming to talk to Victorious

"That was rude victorious, she was at pearl harbor when it was bombed, and she sank 3 carriers at midway, along with several submarines, she's been fighting by herself for months against superior foes, if there is anything I can ask, its to PLEASE not piss her off" Saratoga whispered

Victorious frowned "I.....understand"

After this, there was very little fighting that they saw part in, until one engagement some time later.

Enterprise stood battle ready as Shoukaku and several mass produced models of sirens showed up.

"Sirens!? HERE?" Victorious exclaimed

"What are these things?" Saratoga asked

"you don't know? they're responsible for the war in europa taking off as it did, they're still moving strings with crimson axis" Victorious explained

Enterprise took this as a direction for which to aim her squadron.

She had her dive and torpedo bombers fly off and head towards the sirens, bombing them violently and rapidly, soon they were nothing but floating wrecks around shoukaku and some other sakuran ships

"Well fought grey ghost, well fought indeed" Shoukaku said as she flew her planes up to fight the three carriers.

Her bombs did hit victorious but many shattered instead of exploding or didnt properly penetrate

Shoukaku looked on in annoyance as Victorious shrugged off the shots

"Armoured flight deck, never leave jolly old london without it" Victorious bragged as enterprise wordlessly used her fighters to decimate a squadron of torpedo bombers.

Saratoga then dropped her pink cloud bombs that made Shoukaku lose her focus.

"Tch....nuisances" she then vanished

Enterprise skated up to talk to Victorious

"That's what you meant by armored deck?"

"Yep, and believe me love, you should have it, you'd come back in better shape than ever"

Enterprise sighed "I'm always repaired and ready within days, doesn't seem to matter"

Saratoga frowned "You think people enjoy seeing you like that?"

Enterprise just stared back into the open water.

"Hey you look at me when I-" Saratoga began, but stopped as Enterprise raised her bow and shot a distant queen.

"...I forgot she can do that"

Victorious was amazed, but as she saw enterprise resume staring at the horizon, she was gonna have a talk with the third fleet's commander soon.

Eventually...

Some time passed and Victorious got to talk with Halsey

"Sir.....I know enterprise had been trained well, but she shot something I didn't even notice, what did you put her through?" Victorious asked

"The war, that's what I put her through, I taught her and her sisters everything in the leadup to this fight, she is the perfect carrier, she hits hard, hits fast, and hits often.....she's the best carrier...." Halsey said, drifting off

"She's real good at fighting....no wonder she looks like.....well if you forgive me-"

"Utter shit?" Halsey cut in

"I-i don't mean disrespect-"

"You're right to think that, she is a massive wreck, a floating husk" Halsey said sadly

"Oh...." Victorious frowned

"She's been at this since santa cruz, she has survived far more than she should've, I know the essex class are coming and will be amazing, but I fear ellie-"

"Ellie?"

"That's her name, its actually Eleanor, but I call her that for short, because she's like a daughter to me......now she thinks I'm just her commander"

Victorious gave Halsey a hug

"Cheer up william, I'll get her fixed up for you, by the time I leave back for the royal navy isles, you'll have your daughter back good as new" She said with a chipper smile and a skip out the door.

Halsey sat in his chair and shook his head with a smile

"you're just a tea drinking hornet..."

XXXXXVVVVVXXXXXX

Enterprise was snoring in her bed, when someone snuck a bomb into her room

After a few seconds it exploded, waking up enterprise

"Rise and Shine enty~" Victorious said with a singsong voice "Its time for your breakfast~"

"OH YEAH GOOD, I JUST LOVE EGGS WITH A SIDE OF BLOWING MY FUCKING FACE OFF" Enterprise shouted with utter rage.

Step one complete

When she smelled the breakfast though, she calmed down.

"That's...pancakes, and bacon, with syrup....and tea?" Enterprise asked observing the meal in front of her.

"Yeep, earl grey, hot" Victorious replied, giving Enterprise utensils to eat with, right there in her room on her ship.

"wait..how did you get on my ship..."

"You left it out in the open for everyone to see, wasn't hard to just fly in an open window on a gust of hot wind, I went down and cooked this up for you, now eat up and let's go for a flight" Victorious said, as Enterprise quickly reduced the plate to nothing but air.

"H-how the-" Victorious said in shock as Enterprise drank the tea down

"done, let's go" Enterprise said

Victorious, downright shocked at the ravenous carrier, thought it was just her malnutrition or stress making her eat fast, maybe both.

XXXVVVXXX

Soon Enterprise had gotten a bomber out, and so did Victorious

"Alright here's the deal, three laps around the base, whoever does it first wins" Victorious said

"wait, you mean there's no-"

"ONETWOTHREESTART" Victorious said rapidly as she took off at lightning speed.

Enterprise recovered from her shock and flew after her, a bit confused

they flew around the base with the wind blowing past their hair

"Why are we doing this?" Enterprise asked over radio

"To enjoy ourselves, you should try it more often~" Victorious said as she picked up speed

Enterprise quickly picked up enough speed to overtake Victorious twice over and won.

"Done" Enterprise said, a bit grouchy

"Well you certainly finished" Victorious said with a sigh

That night, Enterprise sat on her flight deck and watched the moon and the stars

She marveled at them, seeing constellations

Victorious walked onto the deck and watched Enterprise for a bit, then left.

A few days later, Enterprise woke up before she could be bombed, she still had breakfast served to her, though belfast showed up this time.

"I know you, you're the head maid...belfast" Enterprise said softly

"Yes I am, I am at your service as well miss enterprise" Belfast said with a bow

Enterprise shook her head "no....you're not, you serve no one except the commanders"

Belfast raised from her bow and stared at Enterprise, who poked her fish meal.

The fish in question didn't react.

"I made that myself so you'd have something decent to eat" Belfast said

"You don't have to..." Enterprise said softly

"Victorious ordered me to, said you don't deserve to eat anything less than fine meals" Belfast said

"You can just disobey and leave me be..." Enterprise said

Belfast chuckled "like you can disobey master halsey and leave this war?"

"Excuse me?"

"A maid serves their master, a soldier serves their country, in my humble opinion, you're a maid with many masters, and are better armed to handle it" Belfast said

Enterprise paused to think, she ate her meal, and then got up.

"I'll be going now" Enterprise said, leaving in a hurry.

Belfast followed her

"I don't need a maid, so you can go bother someone else" Enterprise said

"I have my orders" Belfast said defiantly

"Then I'll have them overruled if I can" Enterprise retorted as she tried to run away.

Belfast knew not to push it, but as she saw Enterprise leave, she pondered.

"She calls herself a weapon....yet she was scared..."

These thoughts made Belfast grin "Miss Victorious will be delighted with my success"

XXXVVVXXX

After the encounter with Belfast, Enterprise began feeling off.

The maid did her job, yet she had told her to stop doing her job....belfast had told her she was just a maid like her in some way, but that wasn't true, she wasn't chained down to follow orders- wait why was she complaining, she was a weapon, she was made to follow orders, wait why did that thought seem wrong now?

Enterprise smacked her head trying to understand what was happening.

"Its just a fluke, I'll be back to normal soon, commander will be happy with me.....I mean satisfied" Enterprise corrected her own thoughts.

Wait, why did she correct them, why was she questioning that too?

In her confusion she slammed her head against the wall of her superstructure and fainted.

XXXVVVVXXXX

Some time later she found herself supporting a troop landing

The troops went in and did their job as she fired at air defense installations, she swept the skies clean of japs, clean enough to see the clouds above.

In a moment of lucidity, she reached for the clouds as if to touch them.

"Hey enty you're losing yourself out there, get to it" Victorious teased over the radio

"Be quiet victorious"

"Its robin now" Victorious corrected teasingly, her air defense allowing her to help Enterprise's bombers finish their work.

"FINE" Enterprise gruffed, getting annoyed by victorious, something not foreign to her yet still wondering why the hell she was feeling annoyance.

After the attack, when night fell, Victorious went to visit Enterprise, who was sitting up at the stars, but when victorious got close, Enterprise moved aside

"How did you know I was here?" Victorious asked

"We're kansen, don't tell me you can't feel what goes on in your vessel"

"Well I can but not on the flight deck due to armouring" Victorious replied as she sat down

"There's an advantage to not having an armored flight deck then, since I can detect when a nosey brit is here" Enterprise retorted

"Ooo I'm nosey now? nice of you to say so" Victorious giggled as Enterprise rolled her eyes.

"I'm just being nice, you're constantly helping me, so I figured I'd let you be comfortable" Enterprise said, dodging Victorious's gaze

"Your disadvantage is showing, I got through your defenses" Victorious said with a grin that made Enterprise puff up

"Don't act like we're close" Enterprise said defensively

"Oh come on, you're letting me stargaze with you, surely you don't mind me being here right?" Victorious nudged Enterprise's arm

"...be quiet hornet..." Enterprise muttered, then froze when she realised what she said.

Victorious paused too, and Enterprise looked at her, and saw that same hat wearing, skimpy-clothed CV-8 she had called her sister once, she shook her head, and Victorious was there again, but Enterprise was still speechless.

"I...I'm not-" Victorious began

"No, you're not my sister, and you'll never be, SO WHY THE HELL ARE YOU TRYING TO REPLACE HER" Enterprise stood up and shouted at Victorious, then realised what she did and then ran into her superstructure, locking the door tight.

Victorious ran after and furiously banged on the door "ENTERPRISE ITS OKAY, I'M SORRY, I DIDN'T MEAN TO COME OFF LIKE THAT" she screamed, but Enterprise didn't listen.

She went to a special room and opened it up, despite the distant banging, she was adamant, and opened the closet, revealing a bloodstained hat and coat, alongside a bloodied charred blouse, her keepsakes of her sisters, there even was one for her half sister, an effigy she had made before hornet was born.

She looked at the keepsakes and teared up, she knew they were gone....gone for good.

She refused to come out for a solid week, her anguished cries being the only hint she was still alive.

One week later....

Victorious eventually lost her patience and chucked a bomb at Enterprise's superstructure, blasting a hole in it which she jumped into.

She ran to the still sobbing Enterprise, only to find another locked door, she banged on it.

"Enterprise...its me...I'm here to help you!" Victorious said in an assuring voice

"G-go away" Enterprise's voice echoed from behind the door.

"Enty.....I'm sorry for being like your sister....I didn't mean to hurt you" Victorious said "War is ugly, and I never wish to resort to violence.....and seeing what it can lead to...makes me want to use violence and drag you out here to give you a big hug, because....I may not be your sister, but I'm still your friend.....all of us here are" she finished

There was silence.

And then the door unlocked

Victorious went in and saw the keepsakes

".......you...had 3 of them..." Victorious said.... "I saw your sign...your total never added up....it was always short 3...now I get why"

Enterprise stood there, red eyed and puffed in the cheeks trying to keep her cool.

"I've been fighting this entire FUCKING war wondering what the point is, now I realise I'm never going to make a difference like this..." Enterprise said.

"But you have, you kept fighting no matter what, you never let sakura empire rest, they fear you, your allies respect you, and your nation....they love you" Victorious said

Enterprise paused in silence

then she spoke

"You...sent belfast after me to show what its like to embrace being something you're made to be, didn't you?"

"In a more positive light...I was hoping she'd get you to see what you were going to become...but worse...but..." Victorious sighed "I clearly needed a different approach..."

Enterprise stared and then let her shoulders drop.

"The next battle is soon, feel free to stay on my ship...." Enterprise said as she left, her tears dried up.

Victorious smiled.

XXXXVVVVXXXX

Victorious woke up one morning to a bomb on her bed that exploded, knocking her to the floor.

"OW...who did-" she then noticed a bunch of biscuits with coffee, and a note

"Thats for blowing me up, now eat up"

Victorious chuckled "So this is Eleanour" she said to herself.

Soon after, Enterprise found a bomb on her flight deck but she kicked it off, and soon she saw someone dive bomb onto her deck, penetrating it

"Told you it'd be better to be armored" Victorious said as she got up from her hole....to see Enterprise smiling

"Do that again, and you could die" Enterprise said, her smile becoming serious.

"Oh I know" Victorious said before she flew off.

"Crazy blonde brit" Enterprise muttered before she heard another penetration of her deck.

Victorious gave a victory symbol from her new hole.

She heard Enterprise laugh

"Hey...weapons aren't made to laugh" Victorious said

"I WASN'T LAUGHING YOU IDIOT" Enterprise said, getting all tsundere

I remember the day....it was hard....it was really hard....

Enterprise was preparing for her usual patrol when Victorious came to her, with a bag in hand.

"Hey.....I just got told by our commander, Essex will be arriving shortly"

"I know, I just met her, she claims to be a big fan of mine, but for some reason dad wont tell me who CV-10 is" Enterprise said

"I'm sure they'll be a good fighter, but unfortunately....this means I have to go" Victorious said with a bitter smile

"WHAT!?" Enterprise screeched.

She saw Victorious smiling even more bitterly before summoning her hull.

As she prepared to get on, she felt Enterprise tug on her arm

"Don't go....please...." Enterprise pleaded.

Victorious was stunned but shook her head "this was only temporary, you knew it, I knew it....when this war is over we'll be flying free, but until then, I have to go back and serve my country" Victorious said with a sad sigh, but as she turned, she realised she wasn't moving, somebody had a stronger grip than she thought.

"D-don't....please...robin..." Enterprise quietly pleaded

"Its...victorious again..."

"No.....NO" Enterprise shouted, but Victorious had managed to let go of the grip, though she left something in Enterprise's hand, a little woodcut of a robin.

"I'll see you after this war, fight on for the both of us grey ghost" Victorious said, her carrier going off with many of her attendants with it.

Belfast was the last to leave, seeing Enterprise standing there.

"Miss Enterprise......here" she left something in enterprise's coat pocket before leaving.

XXXVVVVXXX

Enterprise walked into the base HQ and went to find halsey

when she opened the door, she found Halsey looking a bit...off

"Dad...are you alright?"

Halsey hugged her instinctively

"I am now, welcome back ellie" he said

Enterprise didn't react, her emotions overclocking her mind forcing her to sleep.

Some days later

Enterprise was being a little mopey when she opened her secret room, and to her horror, found hornet and yorktown's clothes gone.

She frantically ran around the ship wondering where they could've gone, but they were definitely not on her ship.

As she frantically ran to the base, she was called over her radio by halsey to come to the docks.

When she did, she shouted in frantics

"DAD THEIR CLOTHES ARE GONE, I'M SORRY I DIDN'T-"

"Hush ellie, I know, I was the one who took them" Halsey said

Enterprise's eyes widened "YOU WHAT? WHY?" she demanded angrily

"Because....seeing how you looked after victorious left, I felt like you could use some good news...see I had heard two of the essex class carriers got renamed to yorktown and hornet"

Enterprise paused "even then....that.....you should've told me or asked..."

"That's the thing.....it wasn't my decision, they asked me to, and I can't say no to any of you" He said, and before enterprise could react, he stepped aside and let the two carriers speak for themselves

They stood at Enterprise, smiling

"Heya sis, hope you're happy to see us"

"I hope you fought on"

That was all they got say before one tired ghostly ace hugged them tight, sobbing happily.

Some few hours after they figured out how to use a crowbar, the kansen posed for a picture, a picture that would forever be on halsey's shelf.



And why wouldn't he keep it? It'd be a long time before he saw that smile again.

Chapter Text

To be honest chris, I was actually happy when the sirens began being openly attacking, though I didn't get why at the time

Enterprise was acting off as usual.

Well, usual for her since mid 43, she had been kicking stern up and down the pacific, the essex classes doing a lot of heavy lifting as of late though.

After leyte gulf, arguably the largest naval battle the world had ever known, the sakura navy vanished, no longer fighting anywhere.

and yet, they still had to patrol, enterprise and her sisters, and their friends.

friends....she remembered having one that wasn't from eagle union.

Her sisters had badgered her about who had been there, but she kept her lips shut, and Saratoga had told halsey that enterprise was hiding the truth.

But halsey merely replied "girl's had it rough, let her keep to herself on this", and so Saratoga had refused to explain what was going on.

Yorktown and Hornet both knew something was up, it was just her ally, why did she refuse to talk about it?

But as Enterprise went to her weathered rigging so vestal could patch it up again, Yorktown was able to snake her way past the door before enterprise could close it.

"Yorktown...I said I don't want to talk about her" Enterprise said deadpanned

"did you talk about us to her?" Yorktown asked bluntly

Enterprise paused, and sighed.

"No...it was too painful to talk about then....I didn't want to remember.....what it felt like"

Yorktown frowned "so...you tried to pretend we didn't exist?"

"Saratoga wouldn't let me pretend, she constantly talked to me about it, since she had lost lex, but she was the only one I trusted...until...." Enterprise drifted off

"Until victorious?" Yorktown said with a knowing grin

"she's robin...that's who she'll always be" Enterprise said

She clearly had been without her sisters for a long time, she had forgotten the one rule, be VERY careful what you say, lest they tease you.

"Entyyyy, is that why you've reinforced your heart, because somebody melted through it?~"

Enterprise turned around puzzled.

"Why....why would you say that?"



Beneath that stare and half smile, Yorktown felt a little more dead inside.

"Y-you can't be serious...." Yorktown said, hiding her disbelief in her resting soft face

Enterprise cocked her head in confusion

"What am I missing?"

Yorktown died inside a little more at obliviousprise

"Enty......do you NOT know what I'm talking about?"

"No...should I?"

Three hours later......

"So....she went to see ellie....then she came back, and decided to get smashed face drunk?" Halsey said

"That's the gist of it dad" Hornet said, staring at her smashed older sister.



"Goodness me the dragons are in the kitchen with trombones" Yorktown said, drunken hallucinations clearly setting in.

Hornet called over vestal

"She got drunk again, enty chat apparently" Hornet said

Vestal sighed "Thats it, we're intervening..."

After Yorktown got over her hangover, Halsey approved their intervention.

XXXVVVXXX

Enterprise, unaware of what was going to happen, sat in her bridge awaiting orders like normal.

Slowly but surely Yorktown, Hornet, and Vestal walked towards her ship with a lot of rope.

But as they reached for the ladder, a distant explosion was heard, and a kansen could be seen flying into enterprise's deck.

Enterprise had rushed out faster than yorktown and co. could climb, Enterprise looked a bit too eager to see who it was.

"ROBIN YOU-" and then she saw that it was Shoukaku, battered and bloodied.

Enterprise looked ready to pop a cap in her ass "you're not robin" she hissed.

Shoukaku got up and dusted herself off "I'm afraid not grey ghost, sorry for dropping in like this but...there's a siren attack coming towards this base, the sirens betrayed us, they petrayed us all- wait why do they have a rope?" she noticed the massive amount of rope enterprise's sisters had.

They looked dumbfounded

Enterprise raised her bow at Shoukaku "you died, do I have to make sure you stay dead?" she hissed, harsher this time.

Yorktown lowered enterprise's arm with force.

"Enty no, let her speak...whats this about sirens betraying us?" she asked shoukaku

"Long story involving my senpai, they revived us all and told us to continue a "re-enactment", but when we were confused, they attacked us to force us to follow akagi's orders"

Enterprise's rage built up hearing that name.

Yorktown and Hornet shivered

"I'm sorry for what we've done....I'm more sorry for not realising the sirens had been puppeting everyone all along, and they're coming here to wipe azur lane out at the source" Shoukaku explained

Enterprise got past yorktown and raised Shoukaku into the air with her bare hands

She looked at Shoukaku dead in the eyes, her eyes glowing a dangerous yellow.

When she saw the fear in her eyes, Enterprise let her down.

"Remember pearl harbor?"

"Yes.....I still took part and I apologise for the suffering we inflicted, but akagi wanted power.....and we followed her orders.....I'm willing to make amends as long as these sirens are destroyed"

Enterprise sighed with some relief

"The sirens think this is a game, just magically respawn everyone when they die huh? play by THEIR rules? no, NEVER" Enterprise's eyes flared up with battle readiness, and yet, as some peopled noted, she seemed a little happier.

It was the beginning of a new era of azur lane, when crimson axis changed sides like an italian meme.

After what she said, Enterprise lead the force herself to strike the incoming attack down, the sirens were completely wiped out, and with that came the announcement that due to the need for greater focus on the pacific, azur lane will be moving most of its forces from the atlantic for a bit.

Days passed, ships came and went, enterprise kept her sorties up, and vestal kept repairing her.

Then, the day came when some atlantic forces came to base.

First and foremost on enterprise's eyecatching sights was an old battleship that ran to give her a big ol' hug

"How's my little ace doin?" Texas asked

"Very well mama bighorn" Enterprise said, happy to have a familiar face after halsey was recalled due to an illness

"Well I'll be sure of that, I've heard you've given sakura one hell of a fight" Texas said

"I have indeed....." Enterprise said, "though tell me, how was the atlantic?

Texas smiled a smile full of pride

XXXXVVVVXXXX

"Texas stop firing, you're going to be out of range" a general said over the radio

"I AIN'T OUT OF RANGE YET" Texas shouted as she readied her targeting

"ENOUGH OF THIS FOOLISHNESS, YOU DONT HAVE THE ELEVATION ANYMORE"

"WATCH ME YOU GROUND POUNDING PUNK" Texas retorted as she ripped open her starboard torpedo blister, flooding her with enough water to list her guns enough to get the elevation needed to continue firing support

The royal navy and other eagle union ships looked on in stunned silence as Texas repatched her torpedo blister

"Any other practical problems need solving?" Texas asked over the radio

"....we're good"

XXXXVVVVXXXX

"If you have any problems with range, I'm your gal" Texas said, puffing her chest with pride

".......I'm a carrier...I don't think range is a problem for me" Enterprise said, "especially since at midway I went beyond safe flight time to spot the enemy"

"Thata girl, keep that up and the siren tin cans will fear you" Texas said, patting her on the back.

Enterprise grinned, it felt nice to be acknowledged like that.

"Tell your sisters I'm cookin' ghost rider steak" Texas said as she left.

Enterprise nodded and did tell, it was a nice steak dinner.

After that, she stood out and looked across the water, off center, as if she was waiting for someone.

Texas noticed and walked up to her.

"I see you have a problem" Texas said

".......There's someone who served in the atlantic...someone I know you may have met.....someone who helped me..until she had to return home...." Enterprise said

Texas smiled and sat down, hugging Enterprise

"Darlin', I know who you're talking about, its that vicky woman ain't it?"

Enterprise nodded, "how...is she?"

"She's doin' alright for herself, nearly sank a battleship, she actually asked me a fair bit about someone, claimed she knew 'em from her stint in the pacific, wondered if she was okay, she gave me details on this woman, she seemed so familiar, but...I can't seem to put my finger on who she was talkin' about" She said, tapping Enterprise on the shoulder.

Enterprise felt shock overwhelm her body

"She's alive!?" Enterprise said

"And lookin' for you, said that with the situation getting worse, you'd likely be more sad than a bull without a cow" Texas said with a chuckle

"Hm...." Enterprise said distractedly

"I....I can't believe....I was worried..." Enterprise said, her thoughts processing what she heard.

"Oh come on don't talk like that, people will think you don't care" Texas lightly scolded

"Sorry...I just....why do I care so much, she's not my sisters" Enterprise said

Texas sighed "girl....you're in love"

Enterprise paused for a moment, confused, what was lo-

*flashback*

"Enty....why did you threaten that sailor with your bow?" Yorktown asked

"He kept giving me flowers and I told him to stop with such frivilities, I don't get why he kept giving me flowers, what's the point?"

"Dear sister....the sailor did it because he loves you"

"So do you yet I never get one from you"

".......thats different....its a more...kiss kiss love"

"I don't follow"

*one romance film later*

"Okay look I know you like these films but...what's the point of this?"

"Enty....that sailor wants to be your boyfriend...he wants to love you dearly"

"..........but I'm not human....why would anyone love us?"

"......you want the blunt answer or the fancy answer?"

*end of flashback*

Enterprise's eyes widened

"I...I had asked her not to leave.....it hurt....why did it hurt to see her go?"

"Because love hurts young'un, the hellos and goodbyes affect you more when its someone you hold dear, love comes in many forms, but this one...no this isn't the right place, just know she'll be here soon enough, and you can explore the feeling with her" Texas said, getting up.

"I can't wait to see her bomb my flight deck again" Enterprise said

Texas nodded "she said she tended to do that, oh well, see ya tomorrow"

The next day....

Enterprise was snoring peacefully, when a noise interrupted her, she was in her dorm, and in front of her was Belfast opening the drapes to let sunlight in.

"Belfast....is that you?"

"Yes it is miss Enterprise, I'm here to wake you" Belfast said

Enterprise sighed "I don't need to be woken up but okay"

Belfast helped her into her coat, annoying Enterprise a little

"Belfast I can do this myself"

"Just doing my duty" Belfast retorted calmly

Enterprise groaned "Belfast, your duty is to the royal navy, you dont need to be always on duty" she said.

"Ironic coming from you, the carrier that reaps the souls of sakura" Belfast said

"The scythe is rusty okay?" Enterprise replied sarcastically, "I'm going to get some air before the day begins, if you're insistent on being here for me, you can enjoy it with me"

"Sadly I cannot, as I have to attend to waking everyone else up" Belfast said, walking away with a bow, but as she did, she stumbled a little, and enterprise noticed her limbs seemed weaker...she seemed a little frail today

"Belfast....is everything alright?"

"Yes, just feeling a little peckish this morning, don't worry about me" Belfast deflected

Enterprise felt her words sting, she had always said that, and nobody listened, because if they did, she would've gotten worse, what's belfast's excuse? she clearly needed a break.

"Belfast, you are clearly not okay" Enterprise said, walking up the Belfast as she nearly fell over

Belfast noticed her look of concern and tried to push her away.

"I assure you , if there is something wrong with me, it mustn't get in the way, and if it is, I will simply endure it" Belfast said

Enterprise saw belfast get up, her smile genuine but she was trying to dodge the problem.

Enterprise looked at her until she started looking like her own worn out self.

Thanks to her sisters, Enterprise had managed to take better care of herself, especially since vestal had gotten perfect with taking care of her physical health.

She promptly jumped in front of belfast and stared at the maid.

"Miss Enterprise please-" before she could say anything, else, Enterprise grabbed her by her neck chain.

Soon as everyone looked on in shock, Enterprise was dragging belfast by her chain as the maid protested.

"Enterprise please let me go, enterprise are you listening, ENTERPRISE WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS, LET GO, LET ME GO, ENTERPRISE I'LL BOMB YOUR CAR AT THIS RATE IF YA DON'T LET ME GO-"

But enterprise ignored her and pulled her out to the shoreline.

"You are going to have a break and you are going to like it" Enterprise said as she let belfast go.

Before belfast could retaliate though, Enterprise pointed out to the sea, a dolphin jumped out of the water

"I've seen many of them in my time, they always seemed to mock us for having roles.....well I'd like to see them laugh when I'm serving them up for the sailors to eat" Enterprise said with a chuckle

Belfast stared at her, she felt less rigid and seemed lighter.

"I see you've....improved since last we met...." Belfast said

"Well, having my sisters back helped, but seeing you, although you annoyed me, gives me hope that this war will end, and well...."

"I see....miss victorious will be happy to hear this" Belfast said with a smile

Enterprise grinned too

"I don't need a maid to tell me that, but I still appreciate confirmation that she's alive"

"I have to disagree, you need someone to look after you" Belfast said

Enterprise sighed "but I don't need someone to do it as a job, I prefer them having the choice....it should always be one's choice to do things, you're good at what you do, but has it ever mattered to you on what YOU desire?"

Belfast was silent.

"I take it this is a question you've asked yourself"

"OF COURSE IT IS" Enterprise shouted.

she calmed down and shook her head "sorry, its just...this war's been going on for so long, moments like this do me good, but I don't get enough of them, I am forced to go out there and fight, because if I don't...I fear everyone I care about will die, I'm the one that should hold the burden, not anyone else, I can handle it...."

"But everyone says I can't....and they're right.....if I'm a weapon...maybe its time I should be retired for a better one" Enterprise said sadly

Belfast looked at the grey ghost, she had sat on the sand hugging her knees, looking at the waves on the water.

"You definitely need repairs, but you're not going to get them sulking like that" Belfast said

Enterprise nodded "thanks for listening to my rant, I felt you needed to understand why I'm so annoyed with you, but even if I am, you're a good person at heart" Enterprise said, flashing a smile that made Belfast whip out her rigging and hug enterprise protectively

"YOU ARE NOT BEING HURT AGAIN" she roared, her hug however made enterprise faint from air deprivation.

The next day, by sheer coincidence

Belfast had been given time off to be with Enterprise, in order to give her a needed break as well, they were just friends, despite what yorktown and hornet said.

As they walked around the base, everyone was stunned to see the both of them having a day off, including saratoga

"You're actually on break? WHERE'S THE ENTERPRISE I KNOW IN LOVE, IS THE ROYAL NAVY CRUISER PRANKING ME AGAIN" She jokingly said, shaking Enterprise

"Good to see you too Saratoga" Enterprise said with a grin.

"They actually prank people with her?" Belfast asked

"Until I got ticked" Enterprise brushed off "I threatened to teach them a few bombing tricks I learned"

"Miss Victorious taught you a lot....no wonder you miss her"

Enterprise  nodded sadly, until she opened her coat pocket, and found what belfast left in there

"I forgot to look at this....what is.." she then examined it

It was a special miniature instrument

"Its the herald of victory, a special horn" Belfast explained

Enterprise made it go full sized, and she blew it.

The sound felt like a march of a victorious army, and yet, nothing happened.

Belfast grinned a big grin though "it'll take time, but you'll figure out what this does" Belfast said



Confusedprise was confused.

XXXXVVVVXXXX

As Enterprise did some cleaning on her flight deck, she wondered about that horn.

"Was this some kind of horn to assure me?" she thought.

She began chatting up with Grim.

"Grim I don't understand Belfast, she give me a horn and tells me I'll figure out what it does, and yet all it's done is look pretty in my room"

"Its not the only thing that looks pretty in your room~"

"Oh go fish somewhere" Enterprise spat back with a chuckle

Grim chuckled in eagle while Enterprise wandered back into her thoughts

"You know....now that I think about it, whether its how she was raised or her own instinct....she makes being a maid sound kind of nice, giving it your all for someone you care about outside of battle......I should try it sometime" Enterprise thought.

She continued her pondering when her proximity alarm went off

"OH GOD DAMN IT" She groaned as she prepared to fight, but as she got ready, the sensor detected one plane.

"......only one? no siren attack would be that tiny" she said, relieved a little but still confused.

As she looked up to see what plane that could be, belfast materialised her ship nearby

"heard the alarm- wait what IS that?" she said out loud

"I have no ide-" Enterprise then activated her passive to dodge the incoming bomb, it penetrated her flight deck and caused a big explosion.

"ENTY ARE YOU ALRIGHT?" Hornet said, rushing out when she heard the explosion, Yorktown and Vestal did too.

As the dust cleared, there was a big hole in Enterprise's flight deck, and Enterprise was perfectly fine, but shocked.

Only one person would dare penetrate her like that, and yes I mean to say it like that.

Soon, a carrier dressed like a goddess with a golden leaf crown emerged from the hole, smiling massively.

"I heard you needed help" Victorious said, looking at enterprise who looked somewhat giddy.

Belfast was giggling, the horn had worked.

"This is victorious?" Hornet whispered to Yorktown

"....Apparently....she looks gorgeous" Yorktown whispered back

Victorious stood there after dusting herself off, when she saw Enterprise's stunned smile, she hummed happily

"Got you to smile like I always do~"

There was silence, before Victorious found herself in the biggest hug imaginable

"ROBINNNNNNNNN~" Enterprise said, spinning victorious around with happiness

"ENTYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY" Victorious wailed

Soon she was able to slow down and let Victorious go, but Victorious had to get her sense of reality to return.

"You're back, what took you so long?" Enterprise asked

"What took me so long? waiting for you to blow that horn you dummy, I've been retired for some time due to the victory over the sirens, that horn was the only way I was going to escape the bobbies" Victorious said.

Enterprise promptly walked up to Belfast who looked a bit nervous

"Why. didn't. you. just. tell. me."

"b-because I...I....I" Belfast was speechless

Enragedprise promptly loaded her into a bow

"WAIT WAIT WAIT I'M SORRY FORGIVE ME FOR MY ERROR IN JUDGEMENT-"

"DOWN ENTY" Victorious said half jokingly.

Enterprise cooled down and ran back to Victorious.

"You have no idea how much I missed you"

"Pot calling the kettle black there" Victorious jabbed

"I can prove it" Enterprise said

"Enty come on I know I'm beautiful but-"

*Ker-smooch*

Right there, in front of everybody, enterprise didn't care, and Victorious was utterly taken aback with shock, she pulled away.

"U-UHHH.....I S-S-SEE" Victorious said with a massive blush.

Enterprise realised she did that in front of everyone and ran into her island to dodge the humiliation she felt.

Victorious was a steamed tomato, so was tomatoprise.

Belfast was speechless.

Hornet...was grumpy as she handed 50 gems over to Essex

"Told you senpai and victorious were a thing~" Essex teased

"WE ARE NOT" both of them shouted, somehow enty heard that through the door.

"BULLSHIT" an old voice called out over the radio.

"SHUT UP DAD" Tomatoprise said, blushing harder

XXXXXVVVVVXXXXX

That night, everyone was talking about Enterprise's venturing into romance territory, and how she was currently trying to test her lucky E to its limits and beyond just to avoid everyone.

She couldn't believe she did that.

And victorious was downright stunned, her pupils were anime-white, she was still tomato red, and nobody could get her out of her stunned state.

When it came time to sortie out, both of them were made to sail next to each other by base command, because they were going to explain themselves.

Oh it was awkward sailing, neither of them made a peep, until enterprise hailed her on secret comms.

"S-sorry for getting you like that..."

"I-its f-fine....I didn't realise how much of an impression I left on you"

"yeah...ummm, I genuinely do...love you...its hard to explain...but you were there for me, and I never wanted to let you go, it hurt when you left, it hurt a lot, but I didn't understand why"

"I......I didn't mean to hurt you"

"I didn't know I COULD be hurt...but it made me understand something...robin......"

"......You can still call me that.....to be honest, I asked about you a little too much, I was real worried you'd have died in battle by now....silly of me to think that"

"It wasn't silly.....it was nearly true many times......."

"I heard your sisters are fine.....so if you did die.....we could still see each other again when they rebuilt you"

"....that's dark"

"I know, but seeing you alive and being bashful, it makes me happy, I see your smile and...it makes my day better, w-what I'm saying is.....I feel the same way"

Enterprise's heart skipped a beat, and so did Victorious's

"Robin....can I come to your ship tonight?"

"yes...yes you can"

the call then cut.

XXXVVVVXXX

Sure enough Victorious heard a knock and answered it.

"Hello- HELLOOOO NURSE" Victorious said in shock seeing enterprise in a dress.

"I usually wear this when I had a banquet to attend on base....I hope its okay"

".....It would be if this was a date...."  Victorious said absentmindedly, thoguh she was drooling by now, as Enterprise had a diamond hole in her dress that showed off some of her cleavage, and Vicky likey.

"I-it isn't?" Enterprise asked

"....screw it, it is now" Victorious said, pulling enterprise in.

They sat down, and now that they were alone, awkwardness began to set in.

".....Thats an amazing dress....you're really beautiful" Victorious said

"t-thank you, you're as good looking as ever" Enterprise said back

"T-thanks"

Due to shared awkwardness, they engaged small talk until Victorious got up to go to sleep.

Enterprise sat on a couch until she began snoring, that was one awkward first date.

The first of many.

"I don't know how to say it, but that was one of the finer nights of my life, and then came the siren's full on war, I.....I don't know how it happened, but after a particularly brutal defeat.....I wasn't doing so well"

Late 45, Enterprise was nervously looking at Vestal.

"She'll be healed in no time, don't worry enterprise" Vestal said assuringly

"How can I not worry when my robin's looking like she's on a slab? IT SHOULD'VE BEEN ME, NOT YOU" she banged against the glass in tears.

Vestal had to pull her away.

"Please, let her rest, when she gets better, I'll tell her to come to you to assure you personally" Vestal said

Enterprise nodded and sadly slunk out of the room.

She went to her down and stared at a mirror, smashing it.

"It should've been me......it always should've been me" Enterprise said, repeating herself to sleep.

XXXXVVVVVXXXX

Some time later, as usual, Enterprise was waking up when she heard a noise.

She got up, and saw Victorious in casual clothes, watching her with sadness

"Vestal told me you didn't take it well.....I'm sorry my eagle.." she said

Enterprise just hugged her "it should've been me, why couldn't it have just been me" enterprise said, hugging her tightly

"Enty....I can handle it like you can, you don't need to worry about me every time I sortie"

"You came back...you were lucky to have *sniff*, I hear many didn't *sniffle*"

"....I won't die...I won't ever leave you"

Enterprise held onto victorious tighter when she tried to move

"Robin please...stay with me..."

"I am, you need me here, I'm not going anywhere" Victorious said softly.

Enterprise loosened her hold, and stopped her tears.

She then kissed Victorious on her lips, passionately.

When she let go, a thread of saliva connected their lips

Victorious blushed, but when she saw enterprise's stare, she cupped her cheek.

"How about...for tonight...we fight a battle that you'll enjoy more than anything~" she said, sliding her hand to enterprise's side

"r-robin...what-" enterprise was quieted by victorious stealing her lips for a moment, and when they broke, enterprise had understood.

"Let's....let's do this in my bed" Enterprise said.

soon Enterprise was stripped down to her underwear, black lace, victorious blushed seeing her exposed frame...she was hot.

but she she stripped down to hers, they spared no words as they began kissing again, gently stripping off their final bit of clothes.

"H-have you done this before?" Enterprise asked

"no, have you?"

"No, I'm just venturing forth where my heart says to"

"good girl~" Victorious said seductively before mashing her body against enterprises.

Their shared moans echoed throughout the room, their labias rubbed off one another and made them feel a greater burst of pleasure.

They shared little words as their tongues wrestled for dominance, but then enterprise managed to take the lead, getting on top and inserting her fingers into victorious's flesh cave.

"AH~" victorious yelped, glee filling her voice as she let enterprise attack her chest, her soft landing the target of the grey ghost's licks

Enterprise knew she was doing well, and kept up her finger assault, until victorious shook with pleasure and screamed out her lover's name, enterprise moved her fingers out and licked the honey she had been aiming to get.

"Tastes...like victory~" Enterprise said softly as Victorious panted.

"f-fuck you're good" Victorious said.

"But I think its your turn~" Enterprise teased

 Victorious got up and pinned enterprise onto the bed on her back before smiling

"yes it is~"

she then slid her fingers in and attacked enterprise's neck, earning her some moans of glee and excitement.

Victorious went teasingly slow at first but then coiled her fingers at the exact right spot, making Enterprise squeal, and she didn't last long after that, she screamed out "ROBIN~" with utter pleasure.

The night passed on without sense of when or where after that, they both just locked in and engaged in their passionate battle until they fell asleep in each other's arms, Victorious kissing her eagle.

I know you probably wanted to see it rather than hear it, but that was the first time I felt love touch me in physical form, and I never stopped desiring it, and neither did your eagle.

Present day

"Wow.....that's one hell of a story" Chris said to the storytellers, Victorious, Vestal, and Belfast

"I guess you were always deserving to know, but now that you do, what do you say?" Victorious asked

"I say.....I understand why she loves me a bit better now" Chris admitted

"heh, well you are a pretty blonde, guess she'll always have a type~" Belfast said with a chuckle

"At least you couldn't get her PREGNANT" Vestal jabbed at Victorious

Chris smiled "you know what victorious, do you still wish to be with her sometimes?"

"....Yes...sometimes...I really do.....but I'm better off being single, I will never turn down making love to someone I hold dear, but I rather enjoy being able to come and go wherever I wish......though a part of me still wants to be her little robin"

Chris smiled, before asking a serious question

"well, what if that part of you got a ship?"

Chapter Text

Ägir, unaware of things that were to happen, stripped herself down to prepare for a shower in her ship.

Although it wasn't really anything out of the ordinary, she felt like something was about to happen.

"Nothing...its likely nothing" she told herself, but as she got to her underwear, she heard something echo in her mind

"ᚨᚷᛁᚱ, ᛁ ᛋᚢᛗᛗᛟᚾ ᛏᚺᛖᛖ!"

"NEIN NEIN NEIN NOT NOW, NOW NOW NOT NOWWWWW" she screamed out, managing to grab a towel and cover herself before being fully pulled into the portal.

On the other side, a thunderstorm formed around the man that summoned her, wind, rain, and lightning crackled down.

Eventually, a figure, dressed in that very towel, appeared in front of him, blushing from ear to ear and making flustered noises

"WHY DID YOU HAVE TO SUMMON ME NOW YOU MOON-FACED ASSASSIN OF JOY!?" Ägir rightfully demanded

Chris tried not to laugh "oops..."

"YEAH YOU GOT THAT RIGHT" she said

"Sorry, I kind of deserved that, but...I...I had a reason"

"........okay what reason could you possibly have to tear me away from my shower time?" Ägir asked

"....I was going to ask if you'd be interested in a date....considering I have the time and enty's being tended to"

Ägir turned even redder "YOU...YOU..YOUUUUUUU, YOU LITTLE-" she then sighed in anxiety

"You're not joking....right?"

"I am not, I may be married but having some extra love doesn't hurt" Chris said

".....you will pay for this with a night with me" Ägir said, "and you can start by giving me somewhere to bless with my presence"

"So you can change?"

"so I can- HOW DID YOU-" Ägir blushed furiously and ran towards...water?

"this...this is-"

"A beach on the pacific coast in washington state, its rather nice, and private so I can wait for you to change without-" he was stopped by a noise of a ship being summoned, Ägir vanished into her ship.

Chris chuckled "I do need to make up for that mistake..." he thought to himself

and then he heard Ägir on internal comm

"I don't know WHY you decided to ask now of all times but I'm making a meal for you, consider it a show of mercy" Ägir said with a huff

"Well I did want to give you something else-"

"DOESN'T MATTER. GET ABOARD. NOW"

Chris felt his head sting but he jumped up onto the ship and was met by some..interesting decor

Norse style stuff, moving metal serpents seem to form a path for him.

He sighed, this was going to be a long night if things went well.

He walked into the ship and picked up the scent of fine food, alluring him.

He kept walking in the ship, admiring the interior, until one door opened for him, a fancy mess hall with one table in it and two chairs.

Chris walked to the chair and sat, being graced with a fine fish-based meal soon after.

"My, you cooked this up perfectly my lady" Chris said as he delved in, Ägir ran up to him as he said that and stared at him with puffed cheeks

"I did NOT ask for such a compliment" she said, flustered

"Well you're getting one anyway, sorry for summoning you like that...you really could've just said no" Chris said, dashing to the next point quickly

"I could've....but..." she trailed off and sat down, eating another fish meal.

"Truth be told...I had thought...what it'd be like...to...share...a..." she couldn't finish the sentence she blushed incredibly hard

"You could've asked enterprise" Chris teased

Ägir proceeded to spawn a punch bowl just to scream into it.

"YOU LISTEN TO ME SERVANT OF THE GODDESS-" she paused mid screech as chris recoiled from the noise.

Seeing him recoil was kind of adorable.

"Nnnngh, why do you have to be so cute when you're pained?" Ägir pondered

"I can't help it" Chris said

Ägir smiled, this was her chance.

"Hehe, helpless now aren't you? as expected, you could never hope to last long against me, admit defeat and I may pity you~" Ägir teased with a smirk.

Oh that got chris annoyed "It'll take more than that to break me" he said

Ägir grinned, got up, and pulled him by his shirt closer to her

"I'll be happy to try harder, if only to prove your own folly~" she said

Chris smiled "lady, you have no idea who you're up against, I've slain gods before~"

"Such heretical boasts, your pride shall make for a great cliff to throw you off of~" Ägir said, whispering into his ear in a way that turned him on.

"even if the winds blow me into the face of the cliff, I'll triumph over nature~"

That boast got Ägir hot and wet enough to know what she was going to do next.

She teleported the both of them to the bedroom, and next thing chris knew, he was flung on the bed.

"You're going to pay dearly for such heretical boasts~" Ägir said with a seductive grin as she jumped to it and attacked his lips in a kiss that took no prisoners.

When she broke it off, chris realised she had tied him to bed and opened his shirt to reveal his chest

and as usual, the kansen that sees it is gonna react.

"I-......my.....you....."

"Nobody expects me to carry them" chris said, trying to keep calm because his heart was racing, this was a thrill he enjoyed, being dominated by someone who wouldn't actually hurt him, but the thought that she would was still possible.

it was paranoia fuel for him, but in a way, he thrived off the danger.

"hehe, you enjoy the storm too, you fear nothing, you defy your enemy's will, well you're not going to dey me tonight mister~" she said as she rubbed his chest sensually slow, taking her sweet time, dragging her fingers.

She could tell she was making good progress to full submission, but chris kept squirming, somewhat playfully, taunting her to try more.

she responded by summoning chains to clamp on his wrists and she pulled the hands behind his head, before unzipping his pants slowly, letting his underwear show itself.

She began rubbing him through the fabric, messing with just the tip, chris smiled in delight and got even harder, straining against his restraints.

"MORE.....GIVE ME MORE MIGHTY GODDESS" he snapped

"naughty naughty, you're not supposed to talk~" Ägir said, stuffing a ball gag in his mouth, which made his eyes widen, now he knew why iron blood usually handled mating season with sakura most of the time.

Ägir watched him desperately squirm more, continuously rubbing his needy member, teasing him more by smothering his chest with kisses, and then dragging her tongue against his neck, right where he was most sensitive.

"Good servant, I think this deserves a little treat~" she said, finally removing him of all of his clothes

She gawked at how hard she had made him, his dick was twitching with immense need, it throbbed a bit, tapping against Ägir's outstretched hand.

She clearly had worked her magic well, but she wasn't done yet, she brought her mouth close and breathed onto it, chris's cheeks were now red with lust, and his eyes looked ready to pierce her with the same feeling.

"ara~ didn't take much to break you~" she lightly teased as chris tried to break his restraints

"hmhmhmmmm, still defiant after all, no matter, you're getting what you asked for~" Ägir said before removing her clothes sensually slow, kicking them aside, and crawling onto him.

She looked at him, his eyes were undoubting, even when bound and gagged, there was still a fire in it, a fire Ägir felt warm just by seeing.

"Hmhmhmmm, I know you want it, I know you want me to let you free, let you have control, so you can control the storm....but I'm not letting you, you're not going to escape, not yet~" she whispered with such sultry tones into his ear that even through the gag she could hear him moan.

This was enough for her to know he was about to break, or well, she thought so anyway.

She snaked right back down, raising her body up, and guiding his throbbing shaft into the destination he had been wanting to go to all night.

With a squish and a moan, she connected with him, and immediately felt herself heat up as his dick graced her insides, she moved up and down slowly, ready to drag this out, make him beg for final release.

She continued moving up and down, swishing around to stimulate chris more, she let him out of the ball gag so she could hear him moan out and beg for more.

But he wasn't saying a thing, he was moaning alright though.

"Hehe, what a nice little plaything~"

Her riding got a little faster, making chris finally say something

"YES, FUCK ME MOMMY"

At this point, Ägir decided enough was enough, being called mommy activated her happy side of her brain.

"That's enough of the squall, prepare for the full storm~" Ägir said before going all out finally, riding chris hard enough to make the bed shake and making them both moan out in pleasure from the kickback

Ägir could see chris utterly lose himself finally, and that encouraged him to kiss his lips, riding him more relentlessly, scratching at his chest to make more marks on it, pinning him to the bed as she put more force into it.

But all the teasing meant chris didn't last long, and he squirmed a bit to tell Ägir, who sped up a little bit more before finally, she felt the massive eruption blast upwards into her womb and all over the path to it.

She trembled a little from the recoil of the eruption of sperm, it was a lot, full streams of it leaked out from her pussy and trickling down back onto chris's pelvic area, but once he stopped pumping, Ägir fell on top of him and kissed him on the lips, holding him to her chest

"gut boy..., very gut boy~" Ägir said, cooing into his ear as he recovered.

Chris looked at her speechless but with eyes that told her everything, despite all the teasing and just how much she taunted him, he loved her regardless.

Ägir blushed with a smile "look at you now, all spent, what a shame, I'm still rearing to go~" she taunted, waiting to see how he reacted.

He reacted by pulling against the chains, and they started to crack, Ägir's eyes opened wide

Her heart rate began to increase as she saw him cracking the chains, but before he could break the chains, she released him.

"Y-you don't need to break them, a-after all that, and you STILL want to challenge me?" Ägir said, flustered by chri's defiant act

"I told you I've slayed gods, I let you dominate me to see if you could handle ME~" Chris said as he pulled her close and then got on top of her.

Ägir felt excitement and terror rush through her at the same time, there was no escape for her.

"Y-you wouldn't, you can't possibly conquer me~" she said, daring him to continue

"We'll see about that~" chris said, before hoisting her legs up, spreading them, and sliding his now hard again meat sword into Ägir's awaiting hole, and with a moan from the now pinned sea goddess, he began thrusting hard with everythiung he had.

"MMMM, SHIESSE, OH YESH" Ägir moaned out as chris continued his relentless assault, pounding her relentlessly, even though her pussy was still trickling with cum, he thrusted on, making excess spurt out around him, his grunts and growls making Ägir mew out excitement.

"YESH, COME ON, STRIKE YOUR GODDESS DOWN, BRING THE LIGHTNINNG" she moaned out  as she endured the pinning down she had secretly desired to get out of him, she gave in and enjoyed every second of it.

With little more than a shake, Ägir continued to shriek out words "OH SHIESSE, KEEP GOING KEEP GOING, I'M GONNA, OH, NEIN, I'M CUMMING I'M CUMMING I'M CUMMING AAAAAAAAAAA"

As she climaxed, she felt chris dump another load inside her, not that she could react, she whimpered a little as her orgasm shook through her.

as she came down, she felt chris hold her tight, helping her come down gently.

As she stopped twitching, she let him kiss her head, and rub his hands over her.

"so.....had enough yet oh goddess of the sea?"

That got her out of her post climatic high

"You dare still defy me?" she said with a dominatrix grin that made chris realise that yes, she was GOING to to try to win this battle.

And after about 3-4 more rounds of Ägir riding him out to kingdom come, she was utterly spent and so was he.

The rested there, Ägir snuggling his chest, and wrapping a leg over him as they lulled off to sleep.

The next day

Well, it wasn't much after, when they woke up, Ägir blushed like mad but still admitted she liked it.

But it really got out of hand in their eyes

"I.........something bothers me" Ägir said

"what?"

"You came to see if I'd be worth loving...and we ended up violently dancing in passion, I kind of dragged you into it yet you still went with it"

"Ägir, went the lust is over, whats left is the love thats truly there, I usually dont expect to smash on the first date, but after it was over, you never let me go, you possessed me..... and you snored cutely~"

Ägir blushed ".....you really still want to date me?"

"Of course I do, being your attractiveness you're kind of a dork, kind of like....me"

Ägir felt a citadel hit, and then puffed up her cheeks like a tsundere

"That's it, you're being shackled" She said before she got out a chain and attached it to his neck

"UHHHH"

She then kissed him, despawning the chain.

"At least, until we get back home to the wife and tell her she has to share~"

Chapter Text

Chris had a big problem.

No it wasn't the fact that while everyone was fighting a major war he was back in the states chillaxing on leave.

No. the problem was he kept feeling like somebody was watching him, and it wasn't anyone in the house.

After he put emily in her crib for a nap, he discussed this feeling with his wife.

"Ellie, I think there's a vampire stalking me" Chris said

Enterprise looked at him with curious confusion.

"Okay I know you're met some weird people and I know there are 5 shipgirls that this could be, but why are you worried?" Enterprise asked

"They could sneak up and get you.....or they could seduce me and take me away" Chris said, blunt as ever

Enterprise stopped her bowstring tuning.

"It isn't duke of york, I know that" Enterprise said, "so the chances of you being taken away willingly are miniscule, hmmm, could be vampire, aptly named.....but wasn't she destroyed by sirens?"

Chris pondered this "so...who does that leave?"

"Not counting vampire META, there's the colorado sisters.....they sort of became undead after pearl harbor, west virginia was the first to vampirise, later her sisters converted too, I don't know how its possible, but if its them....I dont think they'd stalk you.....why do you feel like you're being stalked by a vampire anyway?"

"Classical music, gothic presence, and whispers of blood" Chris said, "whatever the hell that last one is"

"I...see......well uhhh....I don't know what to exactly say.....tell you what if its true, go out and walk....if you start hearing music, follow it and see what happens...I'll be watching with grim....wait where IS that funny bird anyway?" Enterprise asked, looking around.

Chris then heard distant squawks and realised where grim was.

".....you don't want to know" Chris said.

"..........Okay I'll just have a panther fly alongside you then..." Enterprise said, a bitter smile on her face

XXXVVVXXX

It was sundown now, Chris walked out, though enterprise had passed out so there was no panther.

He walked carefully, hoping to not run into anything, but as he got closer, he heard a noise that seemed to indicate he should go to the beach.

"........well.....thats weird" he pondered

as he got closer, he recognised the noise as a violin being played...it was being played well, yet clearly someone was practicing, it'd stop and continue and repeat, all abruptly


Chris was confused, who would be playing a violin out here, but then he noticed a beach house, and on the porch, was someone laying down in a chair, glad in a swimsuit, with several drinks nearby.




"COLORADO!?" Chris exclaimed loudly, getting her attention

"EEP, commander, when did you get here!?" Colorado asked nervously

"I live nearby here, what are you doing here?" Chris asked

Colorado blushed a little and adverted her gaze.

"I...I....I.....' she froze up, she realised she was still in her bikini and tried to cover herself up.

Chris looked away to ease her nerves.

"I.....was trying to perform for the animals..." Colorado said

"In a bikini?" Chris asked

"........Vee said it'd help people pay attention to me" Colorado said, trying to deflect from the question.

"Yeah.......uhhh.....the animals dont care...." Chris said

"but you do" colorado muttered quietly.

"I heard that" Chris said with a smirk

Colorado froze up again.

".......d-did you enjoy my music?" Colorado asked suddenly trying to avoid her nerves getting worse

"No that just made it worse......he's gonna know"

Chris sighed with a smile "'rado.....did you just want to be with me?"

Colorado felt her body warm up and her blush was immense, she let her neck covering fall to reveal her nervous smile.

Chris developed adorabetes staring at her smile.

"Damnit battleships aren't supposed to be this adorable" Chris said

"I-I'M NOT TRYING TO BE" Colorado said

"well you're succeeding, almost as much as you are at that violin peace...you play it well" Chris said, hoping a compliment would ease her nerves.

It made her smile more and her eyes closed in happiness.

Chris fell backward and dramatically seized on the sand

"AAAGH, TOO MUCH ADORABLE, HAVING A STROKE-" chris said dramatically.

Colorado ran to him, not thinking, and picked him up to hold him.

"A-ARE YOU OKAY CO-"

*smooch*

Colorado was silenced by a cheek peck.

"hehehe, always wanted to do that to you~" Chris teased

Colorado's face darkened "shall I load commander into my turret?"

Chris started sweating nervously

Colorado's face softened

"I was just kidding, ....that was smooth" Colorado said.....processing what had happened

"And judging by your reaction I'm right, you DID want to see me"

Colorado blushed again

"I....yes.....I love your compliments and your compassion, your vision of the future....I missed you....I missed you a lot" Colorado said

"so you sailed all the way from hawaii, just to see me?" Chris said as colorado let him free.

She nodded

"Colorado....I'm sorry....I know I'd be missed but...you could've just waited" Chris said

"yes....but maryland and west virginia...they left too....they went on a romantic getaway with their officers...so there was just me..."

Chris nodded in understanding.

"so...why the bikini?"

Colorado blushed furiously

"I...." she didn't finish the sentence

Chris held her to his chest, as he texted enterprise who was woken up.

Her response was quick

"I had a suspicion...she really likes you, she always looked forward to your orders, she's harmless, she can stay with us if she wants, just dont get her pregnant please, emily's enough XD"

Chris turned to Colorado who hadn't moved.

"Hey.....I hear you're a vampire" chris said

Colorado blushed

"I-its true.....do you....mind it?"

"I find them very hot" Chris said

".......oh......" colorado felt like facepalming

"I could've been with him sooner if I just admitted it..."

"I-I dont follow usual rules....the daylight weakens me but I dont die, and blood....isn't required but siren fuel is quite delectable" colorado said pulling back to explain.

"I see, ....do you still have an urge to bite people?" Chris said, a little flustered

"........why are you nervous about asking that?" Colorado asked

Chris blushed

"........are you serious right now?"

"Yes"

Colorado didn't know how to react.

".......I..I may or may not....but I was going to ask.....c-can I see your chest?" Colorado said with a blush

Chris relented and took his shirt off, sitting down on the sand.

Colorado sat down next to him and stared at him.

".......I believe enterprise has told why we're so interested about scars.....as kansen.....we don't get those....we're either born with them or don't.....and they never go away" she said as she stroked chris's scars, the sensation making him groan softly.

"........that...feels good?"

".....yes, the touch is wonderful" chris said, losing himself to the sensational haze

Colorado felt herself heat up, she had reeled him in by complete accident.

"......aren't I cold to the touch?" Colorado asked, remembering chris had held her earlier

"if you're cold, then I'll let you be warm with me, least I can do to thank you for all you've done" Chris said, putting a warm hand to touch colorado's breast.

She didn't object, but when chris pulled away upon realising what he did, colorado pulled it back towards her

"no....keep it on me.....keep them both on me" she said, pulling his arms towards bher and guiding his hands until they were holding her firmly, his warmth making her purr.

Chris for his part pulled her close and patted her head, making her softly squee.

Her adorableness was matched only by her body, and the gentle strokes she gave him.

They stayed like that for a long time, until it got cold.

"alright let's go, its getting cold out' Chris said, pulling colorado up.

Colorado sighed and put on her sweater

"alright....but when we get home.....can I..."

"No, enterprise claims priority.....but if it helps, you can play the violin for emily" chris said

Colorado's eyes sparkled

"I.......have never tried to entertain a baby.....t-thank you"

Chris just smiled and walked her back to the house.

When they got inside, they saw emily playing with a toy piano.

Colorado walked up to emily to get a closer look, and emily stared at her, pacifier in mouth, with curiosity.

Enterprise greeted chris was a cheek peck

"so...she just wanted a little moment in the sand huh?"

"I told her she could play for emily" chris said.

Colorado got out her violin and began playing it.

She didn't get much time to play until she heard a soft clunk, emily had fallen over and was snoring.

"...I think she likes it" Chris said, "well done colorado"

Colorado blushed with a smile.

"Thank you.....my commander"

Chapter Text

King George V was in a hospital bed, recovering from her injuries.

Being caught in a violent explosion does a number on you, KGV was missing actual body parts, fingers, a foot, an eye, mainly due to surgical processes to remove contamination sources.

Contamination....

Hood....

This had been a source of stress for akashi and vestal, George V didn't want to rest, she was not by Hood's side, she didn't know where Hood was, and they wouldn't say if she was okay, all she got was "we...don't know"

And they may have been right.

She'd have to find out herself though, but she couldn't, she wasn't allowed out of her bed until she got better.

How frustrating and humiliating for a knight to be confined to a bed while her lady was in distress......she needed to be there for her, she had to be.

And yet, she couldn't.

She should've told Hood to sit it out, she could've handled bon homme richard, she could've protected her....prevented this mess.

Could she be too late, did they not want to tell her she had died?

No.....she couldn't be dead...they could save her...

She needed to have hope.

She groaned as night fell, she really missed her lady of the lake....

XXXVVVVXXX

Sometime in the dead of night, George woke up when she heard a noise.

"Who's there?" she called out.

the nothingness responded back with such things.

KGV still felt like somebody was watching her, and she has no privacy.

She reached for her sword, only to find it locked away in a capsule nearby.

Her rigging had been disabled so all she had was fisticuffs, and she was sorely lacking.....

Despite her injuries, her desire to defend herself got her out of the bed, and she prepared to fight

"If you're the grim reaper that chris talks about, I'm not going yet, HAVE AT YOU" she challenged

The presence in the room seemed to shift, and then, it spoke

"George......please....lay back down, you'll hurt yourself"

KGV paused, that voice...

That high class, elegant...flowery voice....

"H-HOOD?"

Hood showed herself

"s-sorry for scaring you my dear knight....I didn't mean to"

KGV wanted to rush and hug her lady, but when she began to move, pain shot up all at once, causing her to reel.

Hood moved closer and caught her.

"shh...no need....please rest" Hood said, helping her lay back down so she could rest.

when she laid down, Hood sat down in a chair next to the hospital bed, watching her knight as she settled down, her robe doing wonders at covering her.....natural armor....as it were, which Hood seemed to not mind.

"How.....are you....am I dreaming?"

Hood seemed to dart her eyes away from KGV for a few moments

"No....you are not"

"Then are you...a ghost?"

"I......" Hood paused, and then she gently took one of george's hands into hers, caressing it.

"Could a ghost do this?"

KGV shook her head

"You're a smart knight~" Hood cooed

KGV turned her head away.

"And yet I wasn't smart enough to keep you from...."

Hood shook HER head "You couldn't have predicted that richard would come for us, it wasn't your fault"

"I should've taken more decisive action though......." KGV said

Hood seemed to agree

"I should've as well, I just wanted to be done with this operation first....I couldn't bear to see you fight without me suddenly"

"I don't blame you.....you're a woman of honor and virtue, you bore the crown of thorns for all of us, as you so succinctly put it, I remember when you came back, you were worried about the expectations.....when I told you you didn't have to, it was the first time you smiled since you found out about....."

Hood nodded silently

"And you wore a radiant grin yourself seeing my spirits lift, I....didn't realise it then...what I know now"

KGV smiled

"Of course you didn't, you were going through so much, I had to serve her majesty elizabeth so my mind didn't put much effort into thinking about it, had we not had our duties....we possibly could've been saved a lot of heartbreak, but that's in the past my dear lady, you don't have to worry about it....anymore"

KGV's face suddenly clouded as she noticed Hood seemed a little translucent

But then she appeared solid, a trick of the mind?

Hood smiled and leaned closer to george.

"You're right, I don't, I have to worry about my precious knight and if she'll get better or not, so hurry along now" she said with a chuckle before kissing george on the forehead.

"please, sleep" she said after she pulled away

between the kiss and these words, KGV found herself lulled to sleep, her hand still intertwined with Hood's.

XXXXVVVVXXXX

By noon the next day, george woke up.

She woke up slowly and gently

"Good day george" an idiot's voice rang out

KGV did a double take, where Hood was sat the previous night, Chris was.

"I beg your pardon but where's Hood?" KGV asked

Vestal walked over

"What do you mean where is she?"

"she was just in that chair!" KGV said

Chris looked at her with suspicion.

"George.....Hood wasn't here when I arrived...."

"Then where the bloody hell is she" KGV demanded angrily "Did you pull her away? she was here last night, we chatted, she even had my hand!"

Vestal gulped and turned to Chris.

Chris knew george may have gone a little mental from her trauma, but the way she said it, she DID see her...at least she thought she did...

"George.....get up if you can"

KGV paused

"I'm sorry-"

"do. it." he said sternly.

KGV did try to move, she got up off her bed, and despite the pain, she stood tall.

Chris rose up to meet her.

"you think you can handle a walk?"

KGV looked at him with determination

"For my lady, I will walk with one leg in the abyss if I have to"

Chris chuckled

"Okay then"

he then grabbed her by the arm, gently, and walked her out of the room, nodding to vestal.

Vestal sighed, she knew this was gonna happen.

XXXXVVVVXXXX

King George V was patiently keeping up with chris, who seemed to speed walk past several doors and halls, until he made a turn to a steel vault-like door.

He went up to a keypad and typed in a number code.

The door opened, and chris walked george inside.

They passed some doors within until they came across a seemingly standard metal wall.

Chris used some ferrokinesis to peel away the wall, revealing a hidden room

"You can do that?" KGV asked

"I do have limited metal manipulation, built this chamber myself so only I can easily get in and out...because of the chamber's contents"

He then walked her through the tear in the wall, going straight to a giant tube-shaped capsule with two metal sliding panels.

He made sure KGV was close before he peeled the panels away, exposing who was underneath, which made KGV reel back in shock.,

It was a kansen alright, naked, several bloodied holes in her body, several parts looking melted, some cut, a breathing unit fastened onto her sleeping face, little microbes scouring her body, eating damaged tissue and even bone, allowing for clean stuff to grow slowly, they seemed to scurry to the bottom and deposit something into a special grate, which connected to a giant glowing pipe that flowed out of the room.

"You may be telling the truth George, but right here is where Hood is, and she's been here since we opened the facility, she's been in a coma since before lizzie brought her in" Chris said, his voice calm but slightly forceful, like a military superior trying to talk down a soldier into giving up a gun.

KGV was silent, but her face was active, seeing Hood like this brought her to unavoidable tears.

"Now you listen to me, and you listen good" chris said, taking KGV down by the arm and sitting her down in a....surprisingly comfortable chair, next to a rather decent-sized table.

"I know she'd want you to watch over her, and you're well enough to do that now, you're still needing to be checked up on, and I'll be doing that personally, but you will be given food, drink, and whatever else right here, this chair can be augmented so you can sleep comfortably in it, so you can always maintain watch over her" Chris said

KGV stopped her silent tears to look at him

"You.....did all this for us?"

"George, I had bacteria from my own body extracted just so we could decontaminate everyone, I performed surgical cuts on her MYSELF so the parts of her body that melted could heal, designed this facility to allow the resulting uranium from the decontamination process to be stored in nemo's submarine for other uses, AND personally told vestal that I would take over for your care when you got better"

"but...why?"

"Because blondes gotta stick together of course" chris said with a cheeky grin, leaving george to watch over hood in silence.

George looked at her love.....floating in a tank, comatose....even injured her natural beauty was not obscured.

blushing a little she looked away, wiped the tear marks from her face, and found her clothes neatly folded for her.

including her gloves.

gloves....

George then had an idea, figuring out that the tank must have some access hatch, she took a glove, opened the hatch, and let the glove float into the tank.

".....I may be violating several rules....but at least....I can still give you my touch..."

with this she moved her chair back and fell asleep, the stress of walking around having overcame her.

when she woke up later, she had one final surprise waiting for her.

Hood's hand had moved, and it was intertwining her fingers with the fingers of george's glove.

Chapter Text

Its hard to imagine what it must be like to be dating someone like hakuryuu

Especially if you're not a DI-style vice admiral like her boyfriend is.

Yeah Hakuryuu and Charles had been together for some time, shiranui and charles around the same amount as far as they were concerned, their relationship was like two rocks under a storm surge, and they definitely seemed to be on the verge of one bad breakup.

But still, they were united.

But there was one issue that got between them, something that was leading to an intervention.

Hakuryuu walked up to charles's dorm, ready for another awkward day.

When she walked in, folded over a thousand times and all, she saw charles sitting with a fine table of food in front of her.

"Hmmph, actually dressed up for me this time" Hakuryuu said, sitting down.

"That I did" Charles said, letting hakuryuu have a sip of sake.

Hakuryuu did indeed SIIIIIIP.

"Alright, what the hell is it this time?" Hakuryuu said after she was done, knowing sake isnt usually his go-to for a date.

"Please, eat" Charles said politely.

Hakuryuu was flushed, he was up to something.

She did eat anyway, nice sushi, some meat, and even a massive tuna.

She pounded the tuna to make it juicier, even snapped some fire between her fingers to cook it, she then ate it.

Charles was impressed.

"You still have a mighty appetite" Charles said

"Of course I do, I got knocked in the head after a violent battle" Hakuryuu snapped, still wondering what his game was.

Charles groaned "come on I'm not up to anything, relax, please"

"Now I'm even more suspicious"

Charles groaned more

"Can't I just give you a nice dinner to make sure you're okay?"

Hakuryuu blushed "I-I DIDN'T S-SAY THAT"

Charles chuckled "you look cute when you're embarrassed my dragon"

Hakuryuu turned into a red dragon (btw fun fact thats what sekiryu means, spoilers she'll debut soon), and screamed internally.

"Y-YOU I AM NOT CUTE, WATCH YOUR TONGUE BRAT-" she reached for her nodachi, but realised it was gone.

"EEP, w-what w-where is my k-k-k-AAAAA" Hakuryuu broke into a skiddish fit, desperately searching for it.

She searched everywhere in the room, even under the table.

"N-NO WHERE IS IT, WHERE'S MY KAT-"

"hey miss "fearless dragon", over here" charles said

when hakuryuu turned to look, she saw him holding her nodachi in his hand.

"Y-YOU LITTLE SNEAKY, HOW, G-GIVE IT BACK" Hakuryuu demanded

Charles shook his head "no"

"P-PLEASE GIVE IT BACK, PLEASE, I'LL DO ANYTHING YOU SAY PLEEEAAASE" Hakuryuu said

Charles just shook his head "all it takes to break you is to take away this security blanket of a nodachi, you're really weak you know that?" he said in a taunting tone as Hakuryuu broke down.

Hakuryuu however felt herself grow hot.

Eventually, sobbing gave way to anger.

She rose back up, standing firm, her eyes glowing hot, her hands turning reptillian, draconic even.

"Give. me. my. katana. back. NOW!" she demanded, spitting flames

"You want it? come get it" Charles said, taking a battle stance.

Hakuryuu eagerly rushed him, with one swipe of her hand she knocked him to the floor, and her nodachi was back in her hand.

"Hmmph, that wasnt worth the an-"

she then noticed the "nodachi" burning in her grasp, it was a fake.

"W-WHAT THE"

Charles got up, chuckling

"WHATS SO FUNNY?" Hakuryuu growled

"You fought like a dragon over nothing, as you should" Charles said

Hakuryuu growled at him as her eyes turned normal.

"What are you talking about?"

Charles stood up straight and pulled something out from under the tablecloth.

"your nodachi, right here" charles said, flinging it to her, she caught it in confusion

"w-what...it was t-there the whole time!?" Hakuryuu was confused

"Of course it was you idiotic flaming hot-head, I put it there as you were eating, you left it by your chair" Charles explained

"W-WHY?"

"BECAUSE YOU'RE A WHINY BITCH WITHOUT IT" Charles said, his anger boiling over.

Hakuryuu paused, not angry, but surprised.

"You nearly crushed META taihou with little effort, you had the force of a great typhoon and the strength of a raging fire, and yet YOU LOSE YOUR NODACHI AND SUDDENLY YOU'RE CRYING LIKE A CHILD THAT JUST HAD A NIGHTMARE" Charles shouted, firm in his voice.

Hakuryuu didn't recoil, she just stood there, reflecting on it.

"How can someone call themselves the white dragon yet be nothing more than a blue-tailed skink?" Charles asked pointedly

Hakuryuu frowned "I...I....I just...I..."

"You....what?" Charles said, his voice calm

Hakuryuu was puzzled "w-why are you so calm, aren't you angry?"

"I am, but shouting or slugging it out isn't gonna help, so, just...sit down and explain why the hell this nodachi is a crutch when you dont need one?" Charles said

Hakuryuu sat down on a chair, and sighed, looking at it.

"I'm an aircraft carrier built for a nation that had no faith in them until it was far too late, and when you summoned me, I wasn't respected, akagi....akagi constantly belittled me, kaga was cold, I WANTED SOME DAMN RESPECT, I HAD A DAMN CASTLE YET I WAS TREATED AS A GREEN TADPOLE" Hakuryuu shouted

Charles said nothing, motioning for her to continue

"I spent my days wondering what gets me respect, then I noticed the decisives, they all had massive katanas, swords they wielded with power unseen in ages, techniques I could've never learned....so I figured I'd get myself the biggest katana ever, and get the respect I was owed......and all I got was ridicule and fear...until....you" Hakuryuu said, her face sinking.

"Is that what this is about? respect? you already have that, hell you have me, ain't that enough?" Charles asked

Hakuryuu paused with a blush

"...."

Hakuryuu was silent

she pondered about what she was gonna do.

"......*sigh* you really are a pain in my side, but if a sword is a warrior's very heart, then you're never gonna stop stealing it" she said, lightening up.

Charles smiled "thats a good soldier, now let's finish this dinner"

Hakuryuu smiled

"Not yet, I got an idea" Hakuryuu said, before leaving the room.

Charles sat down, wondering what she could be doing.

She returned some time later, still dressed in the skin I made a pun about earlier, but with a special tea.

"I just made this tea, you should drink it, works wonders for that lt. shikikan of yours" Hakuryuu said with a puffy smile

Charles got up and accepted it, sitting down.

"thank you haki, you may have an overreliance on that sword, but you have the guts to be soft when it counts" Charles said.

But when he drank the tea, he felt an overwhelming sensation, it was soothing, relaxing, even helped his blood flow better.

And when he was done drinking, he noticed something at the bottom of the cup.

"whats thi-"

he froze

In the tea cup was a ring, not just any ring, but a ring forged by white hot flame, a brilliant white gem embedded in the jaws of a dragon.

he looked up at Hakuryuu, who was blushing furiously

"I just made that myself since you decided to steal my heart in such a defiant way" Hakuryuu said, her face red with embarrassment and shaking.

Charles was speechless.

he stared at the ring, completely taken aback, this was NOT how his night was expected to go.

He flashed back to his wife, how he proposed to her on a moonlit car ride in oregon.

He remembered his children....the good times and the bad.

Their first words, their first steps, and even...their last....

That awful day, the balloon....

Tears ran down his face, he missed his wife....he missed her a lot.

Hakuryuu noticed, and felt her heart race, did she do something wrong?

Charles looked out the window, at the base.

he looked at himself, his vision getting blurry.

He looked at hakuryuu, the woman he wanted to give a wake up call.

But now, the wake up call was for HIM.

"Haki........I....did I ever tell you about...my previous life?"

Hakuryuu nodded "y-you have....fu-go....I.....I always saw it as horrible..."

"yes....I lost too much that day.....it can never come back...." Charles said, wiping his tears.

"I....I was always hard on christian....I still am, because if I'm not, he could go irrational, he has a second lease on life....something none of us have....nobody human...anyway.." Charles said

Hakuryuu felt her anxiety rise

"w-what does this mean?"

"I...haven't been the best to you either......and I'm sorry for that....until just now...I thought I had lost my one chance at a family...but.....I guess I don't have to be a time traveler to have another chance" Charles said with a small laugh

He turned to Hakuryuu, and gave her the ring

"Put it on..." he said

Hakuryuu did so, his hand was course and dried, but as he stared at the ring, he smiled.

"Haki.....forget dinner, let's go to bed" he said

Hakuryuu blushed and nodded with a grin.

taking her hand, charles walked her to the bedroom, thats when some music started playing, courtesy of a jellyfish in a cookie jar playing a guitar

e f# g f# g f# e
e e f# g f# e

e f# g f# g f# e
e e f# g f# e

"Now...I'm not the best at being compassionate...or honest...but" he said as they entered the room and closed the door.

"What is it?" Hakuryuu asked

*cue guitar transition*

Chapter Text

It was a nice october evening.

An ethereal jellyfish-shaped figure flew through the air silently, gracefully and without a care in the world.

Nobody seemed to notice this interesting sight, even as it descended towards a specific restaurant and took the form of a pale woman.

"This is the place" she thought, staring at her destination, a steak and shake, home of the steakburger.

She walked into the place alone, it had been strange, she could've sworn someone was supposed to be with her.

Nah, he probably floated off somewhere and would catch up.

As she entered the establishment that seemed trapped in the 50's, she saw some people she expected to see, and pardon some inaccuracy in the image just assume the wall decor is there but this is a steak and shake



"You actually took up my request" The pale woman said

"well its not often a siren offers to halt the war for one night just so someone can enjoy a romantic night" Hornet said with a grin

"N-NOT LIKE I'M HAPPY TO BE HERE" Hammann barked

"Oh hush Hammann it'll be over soon" Yorktown said, "by the way he beat you here, he tried diving head first into enty's chest within seconds" Yorktown said with a laugh as enterprise blushed in embarrassment.

"sounds like him, he's the biggest enterprise glazer this side of the internet" The pale woman said with a loving grin.

"what?" Hammann asked in confusion

The poor 4th wall was being covered in plaster when the pale lady noticed someone had taken a more human shape and was sitting at a provided marble table

"Over here Zero" the man said.

Zero blushed a little seeing the man, not exactly hot, looking a little pudgy, wearing glasses and having messy blonde hair, but the smile on his face was pure, and his broad soldiers indicated he'd clean up real good if he got off his depressed ass and exercised.

and the bastard was wearing a jellyfish plushie hat.

"tired of being a jellyfish huh?" Zero said as she sat down

"well I figured it'd be easier to have a meal when I have an actual mouth, you have any idea how hard it is to eat as a jellyfish? you're basically shoving food up your ass" I complained as Zero laughed.

"or up my cunt as your southern drawl mouth puts it?" 

"exactly hehe"

The menu was delivered by hornet "enjoy, and if you ask for breast milk I WILL doolittle you" she said with a chuckle.

"I wont" I said "I've already written that joke with eugen and bismarck, dont worry" 

"Hey why dont you finish that chapter?' Zero asked

"give me a break I've got a lot on my plate...." I said trying to excuse my lack of finishing some chapters.

"well today I will, I know its a lot to sit on your ass all day and write fanfiction, heaven forbid actual stress gets you" Zero said in a satirically mocking tone that made me laugh.

"Yeah I know right I have it soooo easy" 

The shared laughter paved way for a peaceful evening.

Eventually they selected their meals, garlic steakburgers with fries and of course one big mint oreo milkshake.

"want another drink with that?" Hammann asked

"I think I'll take a barq's root beet" I said

"Coffee" Zero replied bluntly.

"noted" Hammann wrote it down and walked off.

quiet.

guess it was time for a conversation.

but nothing came out, neither of us were exactly conversationalists.

so we sat in silence for a long time, until Zero spoke.

"so uhhh, why a jellyfish?"

"I was never someone who wanted to have an avatar that was basically a dark angel or a grim reaper, yk if I'm gonna be largely a gag I may as well look to part, plus well, jellyfish are so easy living, blowing with the ocean's wind, always wanted to be like the wind, ever moving, ever traveling, only still for brief periods when I choose to be, when I want to be with people" I replied, adjusting my glasses to clean them.

Zero nodded.

"I see, but why the cookie jar?"

Instead of an answer, I laughed, then gave an answer

"ever tried explaining that there's a jellyfish in a cookie jar? that just sounds hilarious and ridiculous" 

Zero couldn't argue with that, it IS ridiculous.

"well, I chose my motif for the immortal jellyfish, if you didn't notice" Zero said, puffing her chest with rare pride

"I noticed, you're an undying pain in my ass" I jabbed.

Zero proceeded to fling a wrench at me I dodged by moving my head.

"You might want to consider being a little nicer to me because I'm the one WITH THE MOTHERFUCKING CANNON" Zero said, summoning her rigging.

"d-duly noted"

"Good~"

Zero then despawned her rigging and continued.

"So another question I may as well ask........of all my arbiters...which one do you like most?"

"I like death tbh, idk she's a sweet kid when she's half of herself"

"true...you wouldnt like her when she's her true self..." 

"thats the problem with multiversal singularities, the multiverse doesn't like 'em"

"True to that, I've made millions of observers to lead millions of armies in millions of timelines....and in every timeline....my arbiters struggle to fit in"

"even the one where the male siren fucks everyone so good they become his slaves?"

Zero facedesked "don't remind me about that....thats one of the stupidest reasons for humanity failing to survive the X...." 

"Yeah I think that experiment went wrong"

".....yeah..." zero said distractedly.

"hey wait...isn't chris half-siren? isn't HE good in bed?" Zero said, realising it.

"he isn't so good he causes divorces and rape by coercion" I said with a hiss.

"....fair enough, viewing that universe must've pissed you off"

"not as much as amagi-chan dying ambiguously, FUCK THAT GUY" 

"...not gonna ask..."

"don't...I fucking hate children dying" 

"......is there somse kind of trauma?" zero asked

"....tbh I don't know I just....it feels so unfair, they didn't get to really live..."

Zero extended a hand to comfort.

I accepted it.

"calm...we're here to relax....let's change the subject" Zero offered, and I nodded

"I've noticed around my lab, you take interest in my multiversal theories and dimensional ensnarement, reading constantly....why is that?"

I smiled "because creating timelines, seeing what happens, its the best way to play god, where you observe from afar and just...do that, you can influence it, and your influences can benefit or be detrimental, and you can even use that knowledge to help other supreme lords of creation with their creations, when one creates and shares their ideas, you can truly tackle the philosophy of what it means to be god" I explained.

Zero smiled "so you DON'T mind the endless omnicide I keep causing?"

"well I do, if you're gonna kill the X there HAS to be an easier way...." 

"Well you got a better idea?"

"I don't know, thats what me and my fellow lords of creation experiment with, concepts, theories, experiments" 

Zero sighed contently "you make it sound like writing a book is like causing aliens to die in dimensional prisons...and I'm starting to believe it"

I waved it off.

Zero was gonna continue but the meals were served.

my meal was big, and zero noted it.

"I knew you were huge and thus needed a lot of food but this looks like a family meal..." Zero said

I was too busy chowing down, feeling the food in my gut helped my mood.

Zero watched in awe, she didnt realised I ordered the ninja steakburger, the one that vanishes without a trace.

"you...really packed it away" zero said as I devoured some fries and violated the rights of the cherry on the milkshake.

"food for thought, eating well gives one calories for thinking" I explained, trying to justify the war crime I just committed.

Zero snickered "quick thinker?" 

"oh hush"

"no"

"....pale woman..."

"blonde schmuck"

"JUST KISS ALREADY CHRIST" Hornet said from the kitchen.

she got a wrench thrown at her.

"WHERE DO YOU EVEN STORE THOSE"

"WHERE DO YOU STORE YOUR WALLET MISS SKIMPY?" I jabbed back

"OH YOU ARE GOING TO-"

Yorktown lovetapped hornet, silencing her.

chuckling at that I turned to zero, who was looking at the milkshake, two straws.

"....wanna race to see who can suck the most of it up?" I asked

"....you're on" zero said.

and thus began the big slurp, the milkshake was inhaled between two vortexes, the minty oreo essence flowed down our throats and tried to freeze our brains but we didn't care, we were playing to WIN.

The determined race to the finish line drew us both together, sucking through our straws with such intensity that I gave out, needing to breathe.

Zero smiled in triumph knowing she was going to win, and she did, getting the last of it without much trouble

"hehe, siren lungs win~" zero said, rubbing it in like the annoying tease she can be.

I stood there gasping for some air, looking annoyed

"hehe, don't feel bad, you still did great" zero said, genuine with her compliment

I just stood there, some milkshake on my lips, some on hers.

"I guess we should clean-"

"I got an Idea" I said, cleam in my eye

"wha-"

*ker-smooch*

full on shirt tugging smooch that turned zero red as a tomato.

tomatoprise could relate.

"better~" I said as zero steamed, overwhelmed by the force of my pull, she WAS clean in the mouth though.

"Y-you underhanded human-"

"hey you won, you got your prize~" I said.

Zero just puffed up "you planned to lose just to say that"

"....no, I'm just flexible"

Zero de-puffed.

"well I think we're done here....you wanna go back to your cookie jar?" zero asked

".....sure" I agreed, smiling

we paid the check and left, holding hands as we exited the door, drinks in our free hands.

XXXVVVXXX

Zero drifted through the air, cookie jar in tow, until she found a rip in reality that lead to her bedroom, where she opened the cookie jar and pulled me out.

"you're sleeping with me tonight" she said, pulling me close to hug my jellyfish form like a plushie.

and no complaint was said.

Chapter Text

It was a fine september day.

Particularly sepember 20th.

He was walking around base doing his duties to the fleet, ordering sorties, managing supplies, and telling some kansen to get some rest, which they were glad to do.

Yep, things were going good, even though there were incident reports to sort through, he was loving every moment of this day.

A rarity for him because of the stresses of work, but hey what can ya do?

As he sat in his office, he looked over the latest things for him to take care of

"Send a mission to alaska, manage the bering strait with asimov, give colorado headpats, kiss enty whenever she shows up, fluff kaga's tails and touch her ears, grope shoukaku and let her blow me under the de-"

he realised that last part was written in sharpie.

"....shoukakuuuuu" 

"you called my darling?~" shoukaku said, popping up from under the desk.

Not even batting an eye, chris got to the point

"I thought we agreed you'd focus on sakuran affairs for a bit, indulgence in pleasure can wait" 

Shoukaku sighed "worth a try..."

she slunk out from under the desk and was about to walk away, when a sudden hand softly gripped her soft landing and made her moan softly

"Ahn~ w-wait a-"

"the first part wasn't written in sharpie~" chris said teasingly, giving her stern a soft squeeze.

flustered but smiling, shoukaku returned the favor by grabbing his clothed stick.

Oh they would go at it later, shoukaku was always the more touchy feely of chris's many lovers, her hands roaming where they definitely shouldn't, and his hands always just as eager, but it was always simple teases like that, a sign of their willingness to give in to one another's tenderness when the world dared to imply they didn't deserve each other.

Enterprise's opinion on the matter was bemusement at first, but hey, if chris was happy and shoukaku was genuine, it was just a fact of life for her.

true with how hard they had fallen for one another, it'd be insane to think they'd ever include others, but in war, you could lose everything in an instant, and its best to indulge in as much warmth and affection as you can, lest it be the last time you ever do.

This had been the mentality prevalent through all of chris's choices in harem members, each one chosen for the kinds of love he could give them and the kinds they could give HIM.

As such, when the next person to walk in was another such lover, colorado, he wasted no time giving her some affection, a headpat and a warm hand on her body.

Her smile was so pure chris considered invading a country with her just to see her smile after it was all over.

"commander....aren't you forgetting something?" she asked with a grin pointing to his workload

"eh, wanna help?"

"of course"

that was another thing, any assistance he needed, they were willing to give.

But as the work continued, colorado seemed slightly distracted, looking at her phone.

"something the matter rado?" chris asked

Colorado avoided his gaze for a moment.

"Sorry...its just...Ägir is suggesting I break up with you...."

That got his attention.

He gave colorado a worried stare.

Colorado winced "I-I'm not thinking about it.......but she's really mad, I wanted to talk to you about this but......I don't think she's okay....now she's ranting about how enterprise is putting chemicals in the water that are turning the manjuus gay..."

Chris, baffled, was curious to know more

"........should we call her here? I can leave..."

"...no, I'll meet her somewhere more private, she's not okay" chris said, taking his coat and dashing off.

XXXVVVXXX

On a secluded beach, on brand for him, chris sighed.

"Okay I'm gonna get down to the bottom of this"

And so, he began to recite runic, but before he could finish.

"I'M ALREADY HERE YOU BASTARD"

Subtle.

Chris turned to see a grouchy and frazzled Ägir.

She was not looking good, and her face was dark.

"Ägir, what the hell is going on?"

Ägir looked at him with angry eyes and walked up to him.

"What do you MEAN what's going on? is it not obvious?"

Chris shook his head "not entirely, you're telling colorado to dump me, then making ridiculous claims, and whats this I hear about you randomly tearing down a wooden house because it "looked at you funny?""

Ägir's eyes pierced into his soul but he didn't flinch.

"You better not be telling schultz about this, he's banned me from drinking beer already"

Chris nodded "I know....I'm sorry but it was my suggestion-"

"ANOTHER FUCKING WAY YOU'VE RUINED MY LIFE" Ägir shouted, making chris recoil.

"First you try to summon me and act all superior, then you admit you love me, next thing I know, I NEARLY DIE, THEN FIND OUT THAT DUE TO A PARASITE INSIDE OF ME, I CANT FIGHT ANYMORE, NOR DRINK BEER, OR DO ANYTHING STRESSFUL, AND HAVE TO BE WAITED ON BY YOU HAND AND FOOT"

she stopped shouting, taking a breath, her chest heaving, the water on the beach ripping and tearing like natural blades, resonating with her rage.

"You...fucking ruined me, because of you, for the next 9-ish months, I can't......, you have any idea what it was like in the aether? constantly watching as my friends got summoned, yet I never was? I had to watch them all have lives I wish I had, a-and now...I c-c-c"

chris pulled her into a hug, but she pushed him away.

"NEIN, YOU DON'T DESERVE THAT"

her eyes were turning watery, and her breathing got heavily.

"I didn't think it was possible....." chris said

Ägir didn't respond.

"Listen, I know you're upset about this, but as I've said I was going to help you through it, it IS at least half my fault for what happened, everything I've done has been to make sure you're okay" chris said as he stood, his shoulders dropping.

"Even though I already have a child...I still didn't think it was possible with a non-nuclear ship, and that night....it was like the very storm you always acted as, consequences from that night are shared between us, you might think I don't bare them like you do, and while technically thats true, I'm not carrying a little chris inside me, I still helped create your little one, as such, I share responsibility"

Ägir, though still looking angry, was silently listening.

"I do not doubt myself, I know this wasn't planned, but I want to see it through to the end, but that means communication on both ends...so...please...we're here, you can be open with any of your fears, you don't need to shout to be heard" he said, extending a hand.

Ägir didn't hesitate, it'd be hypocritical to hesitate now, she extended her own hand and chris pulled her down onto the sandy beach below, facing the ocean.

"now, my dear goddess, how can I serve you today?" he asked with a soft smile, the teasing grin he always loved to flash.

Ägir wanted to smack him, she didn't know why, but she did, but she held back, knowing despite all her emotions he meant well.

so she puffed up a little and then sighed.

"I...I'm sorry...I must be a burden to you..."

"no you're not"

Ägir's eyes flickered with relief.

"I...I don't know what's happening to me, it hurts sometimes...sometimes I wake up feeling like I'm about to vomit, other times I feel something kicking inside me, and the cravings, what the hell is schweinshaxe with pineapple pizza and a side of tequila.......I keep being unable to sleep well, I'm feeling random bouts of anger and sadness, all I know is its your fault..." Ägir said

"...when you put it that way I can see why you'd hate me for it.." chris said, deliberately ignoring the fact Ägir HAD basically thrown him into a storm of passion, he genuinely forgot to bring up possible consequences, thats what he gets for thinking with his dick.

"...yet....every time we're together, you're nothing but niceness and the same chris I love.......if you do love me, why inflict this upon me?"

"........damn...."

"....you're taking this surprisingly well..." Ägir pointed out

"......what do you expect? me to be angry because you're not only experiencing typical pregnancy issues, but problems YOU DIDNT KNOW because nobody told you? and you're crashing out because of it? why the hell should I blame you?"

before Ägir could respond, chris rubbed her stomach.

Ägir thought there would be pain, but instead she felt a soothing massage.

"was? u-usually....how..."

"Look, what you've said to colorado is wrong, but its clear it was not said in the best state of mind, but thats why I'm here, to get you in your best state of mind" chris said, holding her hand softly.

Ägir blushed.

"and....yeah....the pains you've experienced are normal, let's get that out of the way, the mood swings? also normal, enty had them too"

"....so thats why you're not surprised..." Ägir said

"to be fair thats just pregnancy in general, not just kansen pregnancy" 

"...fair enough"

"I really should've told you though, even after I knew I never sat you down and prepared you for this, but...lucky for us, you're not even three months in, where things get a lot worse"

"IT GETS WORSE!?"

"eehehe.....yeah..."

"Oh you little- UGH- I- SO- AGH" Ägir pulled away to flail about, her cheeks flushed, she couldn't believe what she just heard.

she then turned back to chris.

"how?"

".....well you start being unable to move as well, thats the big one" 

".......fick..."

"......at least it gives you the excuse to let me carry you around like a princess" chris said

Ägir blushed a little, then muttered "you better carry me..."

"I heard that"

"NO YOU DIDN'T" Ägir said, becoming a tomato

"awww welcome back Ägir, where ya been?"

"S-SHUT IT"

chris silenced her with a hug and a forehead smooch, she melted into his embrace.

"you may have to bear with this for a few more months, and then have to deal with raising a child, but it'll be worth it, I'll be there for you, and so will enty, friedrich, a lot of iron blood, and even vestal, they'll all be here for you, to help you, to care for you, and even tell ya to go out and kill something to vent stress off if ya have to" chris said with a smile.

Ägir, blushing heavily but too exhausted to care, began trailing chris's chest with her fingers.

".....I....I just wished there was a way to speed up the process..."

Chris's face darkened

"there is....but it....I can't bear to go through with it...." 

Ägir turned to face chris

"is that...why you haven't suggested it?"

"....yes...it would solve your issues...but...it involves....terminating..."

Ägir put a hand over his mouth.

"NEVER. discuss that. again."

Chris nodded, and after the hand was removed, spoke "I never wanted to, I could never..."

Ägir nodded "sorry....but while we're talking about....this....I'm worried....is it really possible for all this to go so wrong?"

"yes....if you have too much stress, it could.......well, and if you drink beer, or smoke, or...well...a lot of other things...you could lose the baby"

Ägir's face morphed into a frown "I-I see...."

Chris pulled her close

"but don't worry about it, kansen are tougher than humans, the chances of that are lower, but never zero...thats why we take precautions....even if it means you cant drink"

".....I see...." 

there was some silence for a moment, before Ägir spoke up.

".......I'll let the storm remain a distance away for as long as needed, to enjoy this calm.......I...I'm sorry for how I've acted"

"....you're forgiven.....I already forgave you some time ago"

Ägir didn't blush, she just smiled and rested her head on his chest, listening to his heartbeat.

she closed her eyes, indulging in the sound.

they stayed cuddled like this on the beach for time they didnt bother keeping track of, occasionally shifting to get more comfortable, until Ägir spoke up again.

"hey...I know we can't....you know...have a storm of passion, but....can I ensnare you a little bit?" Ägir asked, her eyes sparkling with love

chris nodded

soon he was feeling his abs being traced again as Ägir attacked his lips, wrapping her free arm around him as she left a trail of kisses from his neck to his chest, and back to his lips.

chris for his part just embraced her softly, letting her indulge in her attack for as long as she desired.

when it was over, Ägir had left quite a mark on him, but had let herself open to a little neck attack from him, marking her in a way she dared not try to remove.

"hehe, still not ready to fully submit, well I dare you to challenge my next act of will~" Ägir said

"and what would that be?"

"Freya, I think that'd be a fitting name"

Chris got what she was saying and smiled "why not Hildegard? assuming its a girl of course"

"Freya's better, no substitutes" Ägir said demandingly

"okay okay...but...thats still fit for a girl...what if its a boy?" chris said as he picked up Ägir and bridal carried her.

"well shouldn't it just be an iron blood version of your name?" Ägir said, not realising she was being carried

".....I'm flattered" Chris said with a grin "its already dane of origin" 

"Oh? well why not wilhelm then...nein he wouldn't be a kaiser" Ägir said, getting a chuckle out of chris

"well, I hope he carries you as well as you carry him, if that happens"

At that point Ägir realised she was being bridal carried, and blushed immensely

"-P-PUT ME DOWN THIS IN....oh forget it just carry me home already, my favorite divine servant~"

"as you wish milady~"

XXXVVVVXXX

Ägir was carried into the nest and put on a comfy couch, right next to vestal and enty

"I see you managed to talk things out with her" Enterprise said, Ägir giving her a little "bleh"

"I admit fault for not preparing her for this, but can you believe she traces my abs more than you? ridic-"

"SILENCE SERVANT!" Ägir barked with a fluster.

"....she's fine" Vestal said

Chris nodded affirmingly.

"tell me though vestal....I'd like to know, do you know if its a boy or girl yet?"

Vestal chuckled "well it should be too early to tell, but, I actually can, girl"

"HAH, so it WILL be freya!" Ägir said "I HAVE TRIUMPHED!"

Enterprise looked at emily who was just as confused

"....well at least you'll have a playmate soon"

Emily sucked on her pacifier in affirmation.

.....OKAY YKW FUCK IT

Several months later....

this was a scene I wanted to include later but I cant wait

"Okay Ägir, one more push, and we're done" Vestal said as Ägir was breathing heavily

"HNNNGH"

*pop*

Out popped a little Ägir that promptly stood on a nearby table, and picked up a tiny toy sword

"I SHALL CONQUER THE SEA IN THE NAME OF MOMMY!"

she then proceeded to jab at the air making tiny stabbing noises.

Chris looked back at Ägir

"I am not touching that"

Chapter Text

"There is nothing gay about a bunch of sises hanging out in a shower room together, as long as you say no homo, its not gay."

This was a joke sign put up by Essex when her intrusive thoughts (also known as christian j wood) told her to, it was put up on the door leading to the joint shower room for the kansen on base.

They were separated from the officers because kansen need some specific additions to their showers, namely sturdier infrastructure.

And it always smelled of war.And soap.

The smell always permeated no matter how much the kansen tried to remove it from their bodies, it just plagued the air.

But eventually, they got noseblind to it, and that leads us to one of the kansen with the best sense of smell.

Kaga.

She was showering away her problems, curled up in the steam and water of the shower she was using, the floor unusually comfortable for some reason.

Kaga didn't want to shower alone, but she felt she had to, to feel free of akagi's ghost.

There was never a chance for privacy with her around, and Kaga appreciated finally having space for herself...but now...it felt like everything was empty.

Her tails were laying on the floor, she didn't feel like waving them.

But, it wasn't all bad, she had friends...and loved...no...

Did chris love her that way? he seemed to, no one strokes a kitsune's ears so gently if they didn't love them.

remembering how it felt her tails began to wag slightly, she got up and added soap to her body, feeling a bit better.

But....if he did...what would he say if...

that was right....kaga had kissed enterprise.

did she tell chris?

are they upset? 

she buried her face in one of her tails.

"DAMNIT YOU STUPID CARRIER..."

as she punched the wall, she heard footsteps

kaga didn't want to look, so she sniffed the air, she could tell who it was by the smell.

and immediately she wished she didn't

gunpowder, regret, could've been anyone, but the moment the lavender hit her nose, she knew exactly who it was.

"......evening...grey ghost"

The woman that just answered froze, she didn't even see kaga, and hell she still didn't.

"Kaga? you're here?" her voice carried no malice.

"....hai..." kaga said, coming out of her cubicle, not bothering to cover herself.

Enterprise got a good look at kaga's frame and vice versa, the grey ghost had definitely improved in body.

Her hair was still flawlessly silvery, if not a little bit longer, her hips and chest had grown a bit, but her midriff was as fit as ever, and her long...slender...

Kaga blushed and soon her tails were wagging.

Enterprise giggled noticing this.

"Kaga, its happening again~"

Kaga blushed a bit and retreated into her cubicle

"G-GOMMEN'NASAI!"

(thats google translated japanese for I'm sorry)

"Daijobudesu" 

("Its fine")

Kaga froze, she turned the shower head off, wondering if she heard right.

"you...you speak sakuran?"

"Of course I do, I've heard it yelled at me enough I picked it up naturally" Enterprise said, trying to ease the mood.

Kaga rolled her eyes internally

"Nice one..." she muttered

"Also had help from chris, apparently his siren implants allow him to speak any language, even animal"

Kaga raised an eyebrow but then shook her head

"I-I nevermind...if you want I can go-"

"No, stay, I wanted to talk to you anyway"
Kaga's heart sank

"this was it, she's gonna midway you..."

"really? here?"

"yes, you don't mind if I shower with you as we talk?" Enterprise offered

Kaga fell over 

"ARE YOU STILL OBLIVIOUS-" she shouted in surprise

Enterprise stared at her, completely unphased

"Look its fine if you don't want I just want to help you relax"

Kaga couldn't tell if that was a cover or she was being genuine, but decided "what the hell" in her head

"sure" she said, pulling enterprise over and turning on the shower head again, the steam rising around them as kaga let the water rush through her head.

enterprise gently nudged up to her, the shower wasn't cramped, but for kaga it may as well have been with how heavy her emotions felt on her, and the anxiety.

kaga was blushing heavily but refusing to speak as enterprise rubbed her shoulders.

"tense....I've learned how to do this from howe, hope its helping"

Kaga seemed to tense up more, and her tails brushed enterprise away.

"I can clean myself thank you..." kaga said

"okay.." enterprise said

Kaga noticed a tint of sadness in enterprise's voice.

"sad? her? is she thinking about midway or something?" 

Enterprise then spoke

"sorry if I'm seeming forward or anything, its just...when chris and I need to talk about something, we usually do so in places like this, it helps ease our tensions and lets us be more honest"

Kaga blushed thinking about the both of them naked but her face was steel, then she sighed

"I don't think I have to tell you that doesn't work for everyone" Kaga said

Enterprise nodded "but...since its about him and I....I figure it'd be appropriate"

That was her cue.

".....is this about the fact I kissed you before I ran after him to handle his transformation?"

Enterprise nodded

Kaga groaned, here it comes

"we talked about that" enterprise said as she got close and offered kaga the soap.

Kaga paused but took it, rubbing it on her arms and legs and letting the water wash it off soon after

"and?" she asked

"well....he and I are both confused....because, do you love me?" 

Kaga blushed but  didn't speak.

she did think about it, and she stared at the beauty in front of her.

beauty aside, her eyes always seemed full of lament, and war, yet now, they seemed to be filled with life.

she blushed more.

"I....find it hard to put into words" Kaga said, handing enterprise the soap, who used it to clean herself.

"so is that a yes?"

"...hai" Kaga replied softly.

Enterprise's reaction stunned kaga, no revulsion, no anger, nothing, but a slight smile.

"well, why?"

not said in bewilderment, but curiosity.

"why?"

"she killed you, it was her grief but she still killed you...she's your enemy, why should you have feelings for the enemy?"

"is it a desire to spite akagi even in death? you're not petty like that...you're strong..."

"but she is stronger....."

"wait...thats it"


Kaga realised it, what had started to maker her feel this way.

They both were warriors with strong souls.

But enterprise, her strength wasn't just in the battlefield, off it she held firm, she treated everything with a calmness only rivaled by her sister yorktown or amagi, she never denied her role...yet overcame her doubts.

Even as she became a blushing mess when chris carried her around port, she found resolve to do the same to him no matter what anyone else thought of it.

Even when there was tragedy, enterprise carried on.

And she hadn't changed, she had found power, but not by overwhelming physical strength, but through resilience.

No wonder she married chris.

And no wonder.....kaga never matched it, her resolve was always weaker...

But not now.

she pulled enterprise towards her and stared her directly in the eyes.

fierceness vs calmness

and without much doubt, she let her tails wrap around enterprise, and her fangs began to bear.

yet enterprise stared back at her unflinchingly.

The same resolve...that same damn resolve to see through things kaga never could...

The resolve that had decimated her, and continued to best her battle after battle.

"You...your strength is beyond my comprehension, and I have an urge to be stronger than you, you remember midway? how you destroyed me so effortlessly?" Kaga said

Enterprise frowned and nodded

"I wasn't even your main target, I was just caught in the crossfire.....and yet I was burned away..." kaga's voice got shaky but she kept her hold on enterprise, pinning her to the wall, unraveling her tails and growling at enterprise who showed little fear.

"and yet, you still saw me a rival"

"I see all of sakura's carriers as rivals" Enterprise said

"even houshou?" Kaga asked, a bit offended

Enterprise realised what the implication was

"Kaga.....don't think of yourself as just another carrier....even if everyone's my rival, you stand out"

Kaga cocked her head in mild confusion, allowing enterprise to push against her, their bodies colliding softly for a brief moment.

"You....still remember midway.....for better or worse, you always left an impression, not just for that, but for pearl harbor"

Kaga felt herself heat up in anger

"That...mistake-"

"And thats what made me think.....you apologised...you didn't have to, yet you did"

Kaga turned away "I...just wanted to make up for my mistakes"

"And it was strong of you to admit that, even if you didn't have to"

Kaga blushed

"B-but I....really?"

"You've implied it already, true strength is not physical, you've grown so strong, that you dared to be honest with your heart twice over"

Kaga couldn't believe the flattery, its exactly what HE would say.

"You've learned from that husband of yours..." 

"He..has influenced my words yes" Enterprise said with a grin

Kaga let out a firey exhale, flames erupting from her hands as she exhaled.

"So....you're not upset?"

"No, nothing was wrong, I was wondering why you did it....and now I know" enterprise approached kaga.

"grey ghost-"

"please...call me enterprise already" Enterprise said with a chuckle.

"no, you deserve respect-"

"then respect my wishes" enterprise said somewhat firmly

Kaga could feel her stare change, but something in her told her not to listen.

"make me say it" Kaga replied with a firey glare

Enterprise did glare back for a moment, but realised what was going on.

Not knowing how to properly respond, she thought to herself, what would chris do?

no...what would enterprise do?

well, nobody knew enterprise better than enterprise.

"I thought everyone knew I hated that name, did you forget?" Enterprise said

"I thought rivals are meant to get each other fired up" Kaga said with a fangy smirk

yep, she was trying to rile her up alright.

"Are you wanting to fight here?" Enterprise said with a smirk

"fight isn't the right word, I want to conquer you, I want to triumph over you, you AND your husband" Kaga said as he pushed Enterprise into a wall, enterprise didn't resist.

"I want to conquer him so thoroughly you fight to reclaim whats yours" Kaga said, "and I want to win that fight too~"

Enterprise was now the one to get flushed, something Kaga noticed, their breathes had gotten as steamy as the shower they were in, bits of soap clung to their bodies, kaga's tails swishing like she found her next prey.

Enterprise, never one to back down from a fight, couldn't help but admire Kaga's drive, even now.

"So it IS a fight you want, on equal terms, just you and I" Enterprise said, her face starting to smile more

"Hai~" Kaga said, her lips getting close to Enterprise's

But before they locked, Enterprise put a finger on them.

"If you think you can defeat me now, you have another thing coming"

Kaga smirked "oh really?"

"Its just one tatakai after another, nothing I can't handle~"

Oh that was a challenge alright.

"I WILL destroy you this time~"

"Bring it on"

One massive cockblock of a time skip later (don't worry you'll get the smut some other time)

Chris was coming home from another long day, he entered his nest expecting nothing out of the ordinary.

He didn't see anything out of the ordinary, sure he bathed alone but that was usual.

as he got out, he noticed a smell.

"incense" he said quietly.

putting on a robe he followed it to its source.

when he got to the room the smell was coming from, he saw Kaga and Enterprise dressed in nightgowns and cuddling.

"WHAT THE HELL" he shouted in shock.

Kaga jolted up "CRAP HE'S HOME"

Enterprise jolted up soon after but didn't seem too worried

"We talked dear, turns out she truly did love me" Enterprise said, pulling Kaga into a hug, kaga did not resist and melted into it.

Chris's shock wore off quick and he chuckled.

"So....does this mean you're not wanting to-"

"shut up and join us already" Kaga said.

Well he couldn't ignore that, he jumped into their embrace and they spent the rest of the night cuddling and falling asleep.

three strong souls being soft, and very lovey.