Princess Admiral (Worm/Azur Lane)

!

In front of the hospital are a line of police cars, Armsmaster, Miss Militia and Velocity arrived at the scene other heroes are already there or still on their way. The city is in a panic right now as what looks like a large group of new Empire capes who are all women had attack the Winslow highschool injuring many students and teachers as they tore it apart chasing after Shadow Stalker in civilian identity has been exposed as a number of students saw her used her powers as she was chased around the school, till the empire capes captured her.

Now she’s being held hostage by the Empire capes and three other students. They brought the four girls to the nearest hospital where one of the girls was taken inside and being treated by the medical staff. Under the eyes of younger capes while the older ones stood guard outside the hospital. All of them had strange tinker weapons and equipments that look like parts of warships. Many of them have the equipment either attached to their bodies in some way, or are just floating around them.

The young ones had their equipments on backpacks or handheld for the most part. The older ones some had theirs on backpacks like the younger ones and some are armed with normal weapons like swords or guns. But others just had their equipment float around them, and are shaped like creatures of the sea or ships, with many having shark like heads with eyes and jagged jaws, with some having dragon like heads for their weapons. A group of the capes are all riding on top of what like like hover bikes.

Speaking of which all of the capes are able to hover in the air like their equipments, or simply are riding on top of them. Also many of them are wearing clothes that show off or reveal lots of skin, even the younger ones. Many of them also have wild hairstyles and hair colors that look like something right out of an anime. (1)

All the heroes of the city are being called in to handle the situation before the hospital becomes a battleground. They’re all holding back as Shadow Stalker and 2 of the 3 girls are being held in the jaws of those mechanical monsters. All three have their arms and legs hang lifeless like rag dolls, all of their bones in their arms and legs have been crushed crippling them for the rest of their lives. All of them have passed out from the pain, but one of the girls had waken up and was crying before falling silent again.

“Where’s the 4th girl?” Armsmaster ask Glory Girl who flew over to him.

“Inside still being treated and under heavy guard. I tried talking to one of the women but all she spoke was German. Another who speaks English told me that they will only speak to someone with authority,” Glory Girl said.

Armsmaster nodded as he spoke with command and got the go ahead, walking towards the women who stared at him. The turrets and mechanical monsters also turn their attention to him.

“I’m Armsmaster, I speak for the PRT,” Armsmaster said making sure all could hear him as he amps up his voice. “Who speaks for you?”

One of the young women began floating towards him, a blonde with green eyes. She is wearing a modified version of a Kriegsmarine's officer uniform. Specifically, it resembles the one used by admirals of the German Navy with black-grey coat, cap, and is holding what looks like a special ceremonial baton. The cross Hipper wears around her neck is the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, one of the highest military medals awarded in Nazi Germany. She has two shark like mechanical monsters floating on either side of her.

“I am KMS Admiral Hipper, I speak for our fleet,” the woman said as she waves to the three hostages held in the jaws of the mechanical monsters they control. “I want these 3 arrested for assaulting a royal princess of the house of Hohenzollern.”

“What?” Armsmaster asked completely stun.

!

Author’s Notes -

1 - The shipgirls can hover in the air when they’re using their rigs both on water and on land. They’re slower on land then they are on water. The reason why, is that the artwork shows the rig weapons just floating in the air not attached to some of the shipgirls. So in this story the shipgirls when using their rigs can hover in the air.

!

 

!

“Matching the blood sample from the hospital, shows that the newest parahuman, Taylor Hebert / The Admiral does come from Germany from her mother's side of the family,” Dragon said who's been using her computer network to trace the bloodline of the Hebert girl.

"Is she blood related to the old German royal family?" Piggot asked over the com channel.

"Yes, I managed to trace it to the House of Hohenzollern from Henry's bloodline the brother of William 2nd the last German Emperor and King and Prussia. Which would also make her a princess of the royal family of England thanks to Princess Victoria being the mother of her great something grandfather. Still trying to find out how he fathered a child that wasn't recorded," Dragon said.

"Most likely the the prince was away from home and met up with a girl. It happens," Piggot said. (1)

"Yes, it most likely why. Was out having a good time and ended up fathering a child he had no idea of," Dragon said.

"And what of the claims that those German women are actually warships?" Piggot asked.

"The German ships that were kept around as museum ships have disappeared and strange storms had appeared over the sites where the wreckage of the other ships were located. The strange thing is the aircraft carries of the German navy were never made, but some of the ships are claiming to be just planned ships," Dragon said.

"How many are there?" Piggot ask dreading the answer.

"There are 66 shipgirls as they call themselves," Dragon said.

"Shipgirls?" Piggot ask.

"Three of the young girls who are grade school age from the looks of them, call themselves that," Dragon said bringing up a picture of three small girls in the waiting room of the hospital. Watching the tv placed there for the kids to watch while they wait.

One of the girls is coloring on the strange hybrid of machine and monster. It looks like it has two heads and has two gun turrets on one head and two more on the other. The girl is using the flat surface as a drawing board. Another girl is sitting on one that looks like a three headed flying dragon with the and clutching a gun turret in her arms. The last is sitting on a small boat with torpedo tubes on the right side and a gun turret on the left. The thing that caught Piggot's attention is that the girl has oversized metal clawed gauntlets on her hands that look as big as her but has no trouble moving around with them or used them. And that she has a long metal tail coming out from under her black dress.

Little Prinz Eugen, Zeppy, and Little Spee, they're the youngest looking of the shipgirls and act like small children. They also have older counterparts who they say are them but older," Dragon said.

"Never mind are they what they claim to be?" Piggot ask.

Dragon brought up a radar and sonar scan she did on the hospital to detect how many of the shipgirls there are. Instead of showing the women and their strange weapons, the pictures showed the outlines of ships and submarines. With a picture of the shipgirls and side by side to compare their locations.

"My god," Piggot said as she knows that powers are bullshit at times, but this is too much.

"The Hebert girl is still hasn't waken up yet. The shipgirls are claiming that they heard her cries for help and came to save her and punish the ones who harm a royal princess. The WW1 era shipgirls miss being apart of an empire and hate what happen to their former empire afterwards. The WW2 era shipgirls are looking forward to serve their new Fuhrer who isn't the madman who took control," Dragon said.

"And they're just going to wait till she wakes up?" Piggot ask worried of what happens if she doesn't wake up.

"Yes, that's their purpose. They serve the royal heir who has the power to call upon their strength and bring them to life," Dragon said.

"Any idea what they're able to do?" Piggot ask.

"None, so far but all of them will be high level brutes from the damage they caused at the school. Shadow Stalker and her two friends, arms and legs are crush. There are footage of the shipgirls crushing their limbs with their hands like crushing an eggshell. They have no bones left in their limbs, its all crush," Dragon said.

"Have, Panacea patch them up after she treats the Hebert girl. She's needed to get her projections under control. As for Shadow Stalker have her lock up with her two friends," Piggot said, not wanting to deal with an army of projections going on a rampage. And if they find out they haven't lock up the one who harm their princess, they just might do that.

!

Author's Notes -

1 - The reason why Taylor is a princess is because her great something grandfather slept with a girl he met while away from home.

!

 

!

Armsmaster could only stand by and watch as the three young women who caused this mess Emma Barnes, Sophia Hess, and Madison Clements we’re taken away, all of them are in critical condition due to their injuries. The shipgirls had Panacea heal them, just so they can torture them more. They shaved the girls heads, followed by them lashing the girls backs leaving deep bloody cuts, followed by them actually being strip of their clothes followed by being tarred and feathered. Where they were paraded around the hospital for hours, leaving them sobering wrecks. Finally making them crawl to safety, all awhile they’re being film by cameras catching their humiliation for the world to watch.

The girls will never be able to live it down, it will follow them for the rest of their lives. Of them crying and begging for their lives, as they were whip while being mock and jeered. Followed by having hot tar poured on their naked bodies and then covered in feathers. Being paraded around for hours by the shipgirls before being made to crawl away.

Armsmaster knows that the young women will live but this will follow them for the rest of their lives. Tarring and feathering undoubtedly caused pain and a lot of discomfort and inconvenience. But above all it was supposed to be embarrassing for the victim. Mobs performed the act in public as a humiliation and a warning, to the victim and anyone else, not to arouse their wrath. In this case the shipgirls of the Iron Blood fleet made it clear that they won’t allow anyone get away harming their princess. And there’s nothing they can do about it as the shipgirls just have too much firepower.

Just to show off what kind of firepower they have, one of the shipgirls Z21 used her gun which looks like a toy gun of a shark with a gun barrel coming out of the mouth, on one of the wreck boats of the boat graveyard. The cannon according to her is a Single 127mm (SK C/34), the gun looked like it wouldn't have dented the hull of the wreck ship, instead it left a huge hole in it instead.

From Dragon's scans, the damage matches what a 127mm shell would do. Meaning that all of the weapons the shipgirls are armed with from a shaker effect, even with a toy size gun that fires a shell that is modeled after a 500 pound shell, is still being shot by a 500 pound shell. The guns of a battleship are the largest guns made with only the German railguns having heavier shells. And the 66 shipgirls are all armed with the most advance weapons of their time, as the Germans went with sheer firepower and armor. If they went on a warpath, there be nothing the PRT could do to stop them. (1)

Armsmaster attention was turned to the shipgirl, August von Parseval a carrier who turns out to be able to fly, like the other carriers. And then there's her rigging that takes the form of a truck size dragon with the flight deck as it's wings, allowing it to fly. For August herself she flies by a black stone throne with a large black stone rock around it, giving her a platform that other shipgirls can ride on. She's the one who flew Z21 to the ship graveyard and is floating next to him.

"Is all of this really worth it?" Armsmaster asked.

"Our princess is the heir of her house who has the power to bring us to her in these new forms," waving to her human form of a busty woman. "This is fitting punishment for harming our princess. We utterly destroyed their credibility and reputations. This will follow them forever, we only allow them to live because their lives are in our princess’s hands. And she is the only one we will listen to or take orders from. Just be glad that we're not doing more. We're expecting all those who allowed this to happen in the first place be punished or we will take matters into our hands."

!

The PRT HQ -

Piggot could feel the headache coming from the news footage of what is happening in front of the hospital. She has no idea what to do with all that is happening but once thing she knows for sure. Heads are going to be rolling by the end of the week.

A call from the government caught her attention.

"This is Piggot speaking," she said answering the call.

"This is Eddy Tomorrow from Foreign Affairs. I want your people to stand down, we're sending people to handle the mess your cape made," the man on speaker said.

"What?" Piggot asked.

"Since the news broke out, we been getting calls from the German government about a member of the Hohenzollern house being put in a hospital by one of your capes. They want to confirm her being of the royal house but with her being a parahuman who can turn German warships into shipgirls as they call themselves, they're very interested in her. Is she a member of the Hohenzollern house?" Tomorrow ask.

"Yes she is from her mother's side, Dragon did a blood test on the Hebert girl," Piggot said seeing how high up this has become. Already texting Armsmaster for him and the other heroes to stand down as this is now a diplomatic matter.

"Just great, anything else?" Tomorrow ask.

"She's the granddaughter from prince Henry the brother of William the last ruler of the German empire and since his mother is a daughter of queen Victoria of England. She's a member of that royal household as well," Piggot said.

"Oh fuck, this is a real mess your cape put us in," Tomorrow said over the speaker.

"I know, and her head is going to roll," Piggot said.

"Is the Hebert girl awake?" Tomorrow ask.

"Not yet," Piggot said.

"Inform the department when she's awake. I have the German and England embassies to inform, I want the blood test sent to the department so that, I can give it to the ambassadors so they can send it to their people to verify. And this is no longer a PRT or Protectorate matter and your department has no say in what happens. The last thing we need is for your people making a bigger mess of things. Both governments will be trying to win her over, to come live in one of their countries," Tomorrow said.

"Would the countries really be after her?" Piggot ask.

"She has an army of battleships in human form, with their weapons having the same firepower as being hit by a shell the size of a soda can, at the smallest from what, I can remember. There are only a few capes who be able to even take being hit by a shell that size and the bigger ones, the number gets stronger... Tell me have any of the Endbringers ever been struck by a navy gunfire?" Tomorrow ask.

"No, they're too small and fast for... the shells of a WW1 and 2 ships were design to destroy heavily armored ships," Piggot said realizing what Tomorrow is getting at.

"And there is if they have any other powers. This is too important for your department to mess things up by trying to strong arm her into joining the Wards. So do not interfere as this is no longer a cape matter," Tomorrow said. (2)

"Understood," Piggot said knowing that this is way too big for her to deal with. Besides, she still needs to rolls some heads before she's replace for letting this happen on her watch.

!

Author's Notes -

1 - Schwerer Gustav was the largest-caliber rifled weapon ever used in combat and, in terms of overall weight, the heaviest mobile artillery piece ever built. The shells fired from it are over 7 tons each.

2 - The shipgirls all have their powers in the game but no longer bond by gameplay rules. Like the ones who can create shields won't be gone after a set number of hits, but by the amount of energy they need to keep them up. Anything that makes sense for gameplay purposes like a long cool down period or like only being able to have a certain amount of power before being drain, is no longer in effect. It be like it be for a real battleship for the most part.

The shipgirls do need to refuel and rearm which they can do by eating or drinking. They can also upgrade their old equipment, by having their crew which are the small birds in game but in this story be fairies that look like them, because I just don't like them. Grab said equipment or parts and install or replace said part.

And unlike in games where like using a flashlight will have batteries that drains fast, and you need a bunch of parts just to upgrade a single piece of equipment that in real life you don't need hundreds of scrap pieces just so that your gun has a piece of leather wrapping to let you grip better. The refits that some of the shipgirls can get will be realistic. Like them getting parts to make their boilers work better, will be like you just going to a store to buy a new chair after the old one breaks. Where you just have to put it together. Instead of doing something like collecting more materials then what would realistically be needed. As you don't need to collect over 500 scrap, just to end up with something that is wrap with ducktape. Or break something down and only get some scrap metal and five screws when you broke down a entire building.

So if anyone sees something that wouldn't happen in the game. Remember the stuff that happens for gameplay reasons, doesn't work anymore.

!

 

!

In her room in the hospital, Taylor is hooked up to medical machines while her father Danny sits next to her. He was held back by the police till, the shipgirls force the police to let him pass. The 3 girls who put her in the hospital are now in a cell, after they were publicly humiliated and paraded around after being tarred and feathered for hours. Before being made to crawl away, where the PRT troops took them away. Which caused Taylor to trigger and summon German warships from both world wars in the form of women.

The shipgirls seem to follow the logic of the the size of the ship is how old the shipgirl appears, with 3 exceptions. The destroyers age range came to be around from grade school age to around Taylor’s age, the same went for the submarines. Who all wear skimpy clothes over swimsuits or just swimsuits, which seeing how they’re shipgirls who are suppose to be in water makes sense for them wearing swimsuits, but is jarring to have young girls. No them being shipgirls means all of them are all either nearly a 100 or over a 100 years old. They just look and act like young children as they’re not human but ships in human form. (1)

The cruisers age appearance are from older teens to young adults. The battleships and the carriers are all adults who like the younger looking shipgirls wear skimpy or form fitting clothes. Which shows off their more than ample figures that strain the clothes that they wear or lack of clothes. All of whom are completely loyal to his daughter who is from her mom’s side of the family a member of the old German royal family.
In the room with him is one of the shipgirls, or two as she constantly changes her appearance whenever the other personality takes over. The shipgirl is the personification of... two separate SMS Emdens, both the legendary cruiser of the Dresden-class as well as the later 1916-era Konigsberg-class cruiser. He can tell which one is using their body by how they wear either black or white and which eye their eye patch is covering. Not to mention how they act, with her white color scheme, soft appearance, and gentle manner of speech would imply otherwise, Dresden Emden is actually quite sinister and domineering.

The other shipgirls are keeping guard outside the room and around the hospital. The smaller shipgirls are all around the hospital, keeping watch with those mechanical weapon beasts things they call their rigging. Even the young looking ones have them which scares the hospital staff of their presents.

“Dad?” Taylor ask waking up.

“Taylor you’re awake,” Danny said.

“Welcome back princess,” Konigsberg Emden greeted her princess admiral.

“What?” Taylor ask looking at her dad.

“You triggered and now can summon shipgirls like Emden here. And it turns out your mother is part of the old German royal family,” Danny said.

“I’m a what?” Taylor ask.

“It’s going to take awhile to explain,” Danny said.

!

Outside -

On a roof top, Armsmaster is talking with the Wards, Aegis, Clockblocker, Kid Win, Gallant, Vista, and Browbeat about Foreign Affairs ordering for them to stand down. The other heroes have been informed about the update orders already, it’s out of their hands now. The government is sending someone to handle things as this is a diplomatic issue and didn’t want the PRT to make things even a bigger mess.

“Her minions publicly humiliated, Shadow Stalker and her two friends, and we can’t do anything about it?” Gallant ask.

“Sure, I’m not going to make a big deal that Shadow Stalker is now a laughing stock and will never be taken seriously ever again. But she is a Ward, we can’t just let that slide,” Aegis said.

“Really? You want to go after her and take on her army of minions with that kind of firepower just for a teammate that none of us like?” Vista asked.

“It’s more about reputation, not that we care about avenging her,” Clockblocker explains.

“We can’t do anything about The Admiral. The government gives us the order to stand down. From what Piggot said, both Germany and England now have an interest in her, now that it’s confirm that she’s of royal blood of both countries. The government doesn’t want to make this into a international scene, so we all stand down and let their people handle things,” Armsmaster said.

“Well, I don’t want to fight those shipgirls. They’re too powerful and too many,” a Kid Win said.

!

Back inside the hospital -

“They were tarred and feathered?” Taylor ask having learned what happen to the three bullies.

“We strip them fo their clothes and tarred and feather them. Then parade them around for a couple of hours before letting them crawl away,” Emden white said.

“Good,” Taylor said learning that the reason why the bullies got away with what they did to her is because one of them is a Ward, Shadow Stalker.
“No way this can be covered up,” Danny said.

“And you destroyed the school?” Taylor ask again.

“Yes during the chase after Shadow Stalker we smash through the walls and anything else. We also smash quite a few of the students and teachers as we did so,” Emden black said.

“And I’m a princess?” Taylor ask.

“You are of the bloodline of the German royal family and a member of the English royal family as well. From your mom’s side of the family,” Danny said.

“You all came when I called for help?” Taylor ask the shipgirl before her.

“Yes, there are more of us waiting for your call,” Emden white said.

“This is too much,” Taylor said laying back down on the bed. “I have my own army and of royal blood. How did that happen?”

“We don’t know, just that we do know you are about of the royal house of Hohenzollern from Henry's bloodline the brother of William 2nd the last German Emperor and King and Prussia,” Emden black said.

“And why do you keep changing clothes?” Taylor ask, every few seconds Emden would change clothes and which eye is cover by her eye patch.

“They're actually two ship that share the same name, sharing one body,” Danny said.

“Oh,” Taylor said staring at Emden and got an idea in her head. “Maybe I can separate you two.”

“You can?” Emden ask.

“Well, I summon you all, maybe, I can summon one of you. Give me you hand,” Taylor said grabbing Emden’s hand and closing her eyes trying to use her power to summon them apart.

!

Outside -

Dragon since the German warships disappeared from museums or where they rested after being sunk, been monitoring for any report of any other ships disappearing. Strange weather patterns and energy readings began to be reported all around the world. The source is coming from the hospital where The Admiral is located.

“The Admiral is awake and using her power,” Dragon said over the coms.

“What?” Assault ask over the coms.

“What do we do?” Gallant ask.

“Stand down,” Piggot said over the com. “Dragon what’s happening down there?”

Dragon using one of her drones has been keeping watch of the Iron Blood fleet.

“The Iron Blood fleet are all staring at the hospital. Looks like they’re being called or can sense the use of the Admiral’s power,” Dragon said.

“Are there any new shipgirls?” Piggot ask.

“Still sorting through the data,” Dragon said having to sort through all the different news coming from all over the world to find what she’s looking for.

“Never mind, I see a huge number of shipgirls incoming from the south, Gad Street,” Glory Girl said over the com.

“How many German ships?” Dragon ask having made a list of the German warships of both world wars.

“They’re not German!” Glory said flying over the horde of shipgirls racing to the hospital with some of them flying in the air. “The British are coming!” (2)

!

Author’s Notes -

1 - Please notes that the young looking shipgirls aren’t really young girls. They are warships from both world wars and are nearly or over a 100 years old. It’s the same thing with child looking characters who are really over a 1,000 year old long lived or immortal being. Or since the shipgirls are warships, would be more like avatars projections or robots.

2 - All the aircraft carriers can hover higher in the air then the other shipgirls, giving them limited flight capabilities.
!

 

!

The scene outside of the hospital is tense as the Royal Navy and the Iron Blood fleet stare down each other. The Royal Navy shipgirls are very different from their Iron Blood counterparts, as their rigging are more ship like then the mechanical war beasts the other shipgirls are armed with. Then there's how they're dress as a large number of them are wearing dresses and outfits that aren't navy or military style, with most revealing way too much skin. Not to mention a large number of them are dress as maids, with the older ones wearing fetish maid outfits. Curiously enough, the Royal Navy has a large number of buxom ships.

The Royal Navy have the numbers, while the Iron Blood have the firepower and armor. If they were to fight, they would tear apart the city. Which the PRT and the heroes were being ordered to get as many people out of the city if they started fighting. (1)

"What do we do?" Clockblocker ask, seeing how there is no time to joke with the stand off taking place right in front of him.

"We need to get as many people out of the area while we can," Velocity who being in the arm forces, knows what kind of firepower the shipgirls have. With the little display showing that their weapons have the same firepower as if they were the full size weapons found on warships.

"No you need to get in the hospital and get The Admiral to get control of her shipgirls," Miss Militia said.

"Look!" Vista pointed to two of the older shipgirls walking towards each other and stopping as they keep their eyes lock on each other.

"That's HMS Hood and KMS Bismarck. Hood was sank by Bismarck," Dragon said.

"This is bad," Armsmaster said.

!

With the Shipgirls -

"Hood," Bismarck said to her old foe.

"Bismarck," Hood responded to the one who sank her.

"Hood," Bismarck said her eyes narrowing.

"Bismarck," Hood said her eyes narrowing.

"Hood," Bismarck said her turrets taking aim.

"Bismarck," Hood said her turrets taking aim.

The other shipgirls also prepared their weapons as they stared down at each other. The heroes and PRT troops, police all began getting the crowds of people away before the gun start firing. Piggot was busy calling for help as things would go all down hill once the two fleets start fighting.

Two cannon fire silenced everything, a cannon ball struck Hood's right butt cheek and another cannon ball stuck Bismarck's left butt cheek. Causing the two shipgirls to give out a girlish shriek. Everyone turn to the one who fired the two shots. Standing in the middle of the two fleets is a woman with greying black hair, and wearing the uniform of a Royal Navy officer from the late 1700's.

Like the Royal Navy fleet she's flying the Union Jack flag but of an older style and has rigging like them. But her cannons are the old fashion cannons that fires cannonballs and the rigging is made out of wood. On her back she has a mast with raised sails on it.

"Enough," the woman said in a commanding tone, that reminded many how a grandmother would talk to young children. Which had the same effect as the Royal Navy shipgirls cowered before her, while the Iron Blood shipgirls didn't for the most part with only the young ones cowering. The older ones just frowned as they stared at the older woman.

"Victory, I'm surprise to see you," Bismarck said rubbing her butt. Hood on the other hand is also rubbing her butt but is walking back to her side, while staring at Victory. "Your cannons are obsolete. Didn't even leave a mark. Don't know why your girls even listen to you." (1)

"I'm not here to fight with you girl. I'm here to answer the call from the young princess. So you girls stop this at once, the princess won't like it if you two turn this place into a war zone," Victory said looking over the two fleets. "Queen Elizabeth you with me. Admiral Hipper and Friedrich der Grosse you two coming too."

"Wait why are we listening to you?" Admiral Hipper asked. "You're not our granny."

"I said move girl! We need to explain things to the princess," Victory said.

"She's the same as always," Friedrich der Grosse said walking to the entrance.

"Fine," Admiral Hipper said.

The four shipgirls walk into the hospital with the two fleets staying where they are.

"Victory?" Kid Win ask the group of heroes.

"HMS Victory, the oldest warship still in commission as a warship. She's an old fashion sail ship and looks like as a shipwoman in her case, she commands the younger ships like a grandmother to her kids," Armsmaster said.

!

Inside the hospital -

In her hospital room, Taylor is dealing with the fact that while she did get Emden to be separate into Emden Dresden and Emden Konigsberg she also summon a fleet of English shipgirls, numbering 102. And leading them is the flagship of the First Sea Lord of the Royal Navy, HMS Victory. Who takes the form of an elderly woman unlike the younger shipgirls.

Standing next to her is HMS Queen Elizabeth, who unlike most other battleships, took the form of a young teenage girl with long blonde hair. She wore a crown and held a scepter, wearing an odd swimsuit that has long gloves and stockings. Of course she could just be just short. She claims to be in charge of the English fleet but one word from Victory makes her jump, reminding her of how some grandmothers have that effect on their kids. (2)

For the German shipgirls, KMS Admiral Hipper who has taken charge of the Iron Blood fleet, and Friedrich der Grosse who was the proposed H-39. Whether or not she's the Kaiserliche Marine's Friedrich der Grosse, somehow resurrected in a new ship class and frame. Queen Elizabeth at first thinks she's the same person (while wondering how that's possible) and even in "Rondo at Rainbow's End" clearly has some suspicions about the whole thing; and according to the Kaiserliche girls who were revived as their original selves (albeit with some "updates" that make their riggings more in line with modern IB design), their first, immediate impression was that this Friedrich was indeed the Friedrich they knew, and they have to look closely to realize that isn't quite right and there are, apparently, some un-elaborated-on differences. Friedrich, for her part, asserts that she isn't "the Friedrich they know"... but her wording is still ambiguous enough to be open to a variety of interpretations (which is likely intentional, both on her part and the part of the writers). She does seem to know a damned lot about the "old" Ironblood for someone ostensibly so new, but whether it's simply the result of research or something more is, again, left ambiguous.

Which ended when Taylor being in the same room while the two talk, ordered Friedrich to just spill it and tell her if she is or isn't the old Friedrich der Grosse. Which said shipgirl explains that she's the old spirit of the original Friedrich der Grosse but has a new body.

"Just for that, you're demoted to Admiral Hipper's first officer... or whatever and she's the flag ship of the Iron Blood fleet," Taylor said annoyed by Friedrich der Grosse playing being all mysterious.

"Hah!" Admiral Hipper bark at Friedrich der Grosse.

"All, I was trying to do was to summon the other Emden so that they wouldn't have to share a body," Taylor said. "Now, I have a second fleet of shipgirls from another country? How did that happen?"

"One of your grandmothers was the daughter of Queen Victoria of England," Queen Elizabeth stated.

"Oh," Taylor said.

"On that matter, with you nearly being killed by the ones who put you in this hospital. They need to be properly punish for their actions," Victory said.

"They're being taken to jail," Taylor said.

"We lash them followed by taring and feathering them and paraded them around for a couple of hours to publicly shame and humiliate them," Admiral Hipper said.

"Queen Elizabeth, your radio is on right?" Victory ask.

"Yes," Queen Elizabeth said.

"Turn it on, I have an order to give to the girls. And have it be an open channel," Victory said.

"Open channel," Queen Elizabeth said.

"The three young women who made a attempt on the life of princess Taylor Hebert have been taken to the local prison. Go and take them so they can be properly hang," Victory said.

"What?" Taylor asked.

"They nearly killed you. And as a member of the royal family, the 3 young women are to be hanged," Victory said.

"They're already in prison," Taylor said.

"And their crime still stands. A attempt on the life of a member of the royal family, is a crime not to ever be taken lightly. In my time we either hand and quarter the ones who tried and display their heads on pikes. We need to send a message to any would be assassins. I think rounding up their families and having them killed in front of them before they share their fate is called for," Victory said.

"I order you not to!" Taylor said.

"Can't do that," Victory said to Taylor. "You called us to your service, but we are still members of the Royal Navy and have a clear line of command. You are only a princess and this attack on you, just can't be ordered off by you. Besides we're a constitutional monarchy, the crown still has power but not at the level when I was young. And as I said your aunt is the current queen, while you're a princess. With this world full of superpower beings like yourself, a statement needs to be made that attacking you will result in a stiff response. They can't be let off lightly or that will show that people can torment you for years and nothing will be done about it. So, a example must be made, showing that it's not just any would be assassins or those who seek harm to you, their lives would be on the line. No, it be their families who will also suffer as well."

"One of the heroes, Dragon wants to speak with you. She's been listening in," Queen Elizabeth said.

"I know, that's why, I had you have an open channel for anyone to listen on in," Victory said.

"Want to talk to her?" Queen Elizabeth ask.

"No, but Dragon is it? If you don't want us to go and kill the ones who assaulted the princess here and their families. You are to put them into the Birdcage prison at once. No going to court, no dragging your feet, just do it. Or them and their families will be executed by me," Victory said.

"You?" Taylor asked.

"Yes by me. I'm old my princess, over 200 years old, my girls will merely bring the ones to be executed to me. I'm a jaded and grizzly soldier, who has done what needed to be done long and many times, where hearing the begging of a child to be hanged, I have long since gotten use to," Victory said. "So tell who you need to tell about my demands. For, I will always protect the royal family, no matter the cost. Even if, I have to be the villain to do it."

"Wow, you're really blood thirsty," Admiral Hipper said.

"When the situation demands it," Victory said as she looks to Taylor. "I know, I'm a monster to you, with what, I'm willing to do. I do it, because someone has to do things that leaves them scarred and be seen as a monster, so that the innocent can be protected, be able to sleep without fear of a villain breaking into their homes at night. If, I can't see that the ones who tried to kill you, not be punished, then, I can't be expected to protect you from other threats. This is my oath to you my princess. I will always be there to protect you and see that justice is done, for I see in your eyes that the people who suppose to protect you, failed so many times before. Which is why, I'm doing this. To show you what lengths I will go to see the ones who did this to you punished."

"I see," Taylor said seeing a someone who will protect her, after so long of none.

!

PRT HQ -

"Send the 3 girls to the Birdcage," Piggot ordered on the coms.

"What?" Armsmaster asked on the coms.

"You heard them. Unless you want to deal with something that would be like Slaughterhouse 9 event but with more firepower. I'm having the girls being taken to the Birdcage now, or we be dealing with those shipgirls not only killing them but their families as well. All to show what she's willing to do for her princess," Piggot said.

"Maybe we can have a high ranking member of the Royal Navy talk to her or have the other shipgirls to back down?" Armsmaster suggested.

"Victory is the First Sea Lord's Flagship, and the oldest commission warship. You saw how she cowered the Royal Navy fleet, she's the matriarch of that fleet. Even if she's the weakest, the shipgirls all follow her orders. And there are over a 100 of them. You really think we be able to stop them?" Piggot asks.

"No," Armsmaster said.

"If it takes throwing those worthless girls into the Birdcage to keep this from turning into another Nilbog event, so be it," Piggot said not wanting to go through that ever again.

!

Author’ Notes -

1 - HMS Victory is still a commission navy ship of the British Royal Navy, which in real life is over 200 years old. Meaning on paper even if she was never used in either world wars, is a warship that served in both wars. And in 1941, Victory sustained damage when a 500 lb. bomb dropped by the Luftwaffe broke her keel. Which kind of makes her apart of the war and was too damage to take apart in it, even if it would had been more of training than anything else.

2 - The top (non-shiplike) portion of Queen Elizabeth's scepter is loosely based on the Sovereign's Sceptre with Cross. One of the Crown Jewels, it has been used at the coronation of every British monarch since Charles II was crowned in 1661. Ironically, this means that her namesake never wielded it, as Elizabeth I died in 1603.

3 - Constitutional monarchies range from countries such as Liechtenstein, Monaco, Morocco, Jordan, Kuwait, and Bahrain, where the constitution grants substantial discretionary powers to the sovereign, to countries such as Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada, the Netherlands, Spain, Belgium, Sweden, Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, and Japan, where the monarch retains significantly less personal discretion in the exercise of their authority.

Constitutional monarchy may refer to a system in which the monarch acts as a non-party political head of state under the constitution, whether codified or uncodified. While most monarchs may hold formal authority and the government may legally operate in the monarch's name, in the form typical in Europe the monarch no longer personally sets public policy or chooses political leaders. Political scientist Vernon Bogdanor, paraphrasing Thomas Macaulay, has defined a constitutional monarch as "A sovereign who reigns but does not rule".

In addition to acting as a visible symbol of national unity, a constitutional monarch may hold formal powers such as dissolving parliament or giving royal assent to legislation. However, such powers generally may only be exercised strictly in accordance with either written constitutional principles or unwritten constitutional conventions, rather than any personal political preferences of the sovereign. In The English Constitution, British political theorist Walter Bagehot identified three main political rights which a constitutional monarch may freely exercise: the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, and the right to warn. Many constitutional monarchies still retain significant authorities or political influence, however, such as through certain reserve powers, and may also play an important political role.

The United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms are all constitutional monarchies in the Westminster system of constitutional governance. Two constitutional monarchies – Malaysia and Cambodia – are elective monarchies, in which the ruler is periodically selected by a small electoral college.

Strongly limited constitutional monarchies, such as the United Kingdom and Australia, have been referred to as crowned republics by writers H. G. Wells and Glenn Patmore.

The concept of semi-constitutional monarch identifies constitutional monarchies where the monarch retains substantial powers, on a par with a president in a presidential or semi-presidential system. As a result, constitutional monarchies where the monarch has a largely ceremonial role may also be referred to as 'parliamentary monarchies' to differentiate them from semi-constitutional monarchies

!

 

!

The members of the Cauldron are meeting to discuss the recent events that happen in Brockton Bay. The news stations have been all over how 3 highschool girls had triggered a fellow highschool girl causing her to summon a fleet of German warships in the form of young women calling themselves shipgirls. Followed by the 3 being lash then tarred and feathered with them being paraded around for hours. Followed by the new parahuman, The Admiral summoning a fleet of English shipgirls. Who made the PRT to throw the 3 girls into The Birdcage, for their attempted murder of The Admiral.

The Baumann Parahuman Containment Center, better known as the Birdcage, is a prison for parahumans that have committed crimes severe enough that they must be removed from society. It is not designed to allow prisoners to leave after they have been imprisoned within it. Because prisoners are only meant to enter the prison, prisoners are loaded onto an elevator with limited oxygen.

The Admiral or Taylor Hebert can command the shipgirls but her orders can be ignored as she tried to order HMS Victory to stop but she refused to follow the order. For she’s a princess of both the British royal family and of the former royal family of Germany. And Victory being the oldest commissioned warship, followed the laws that dealt with assault and attempted murder of a member of the royal family. Which was to kill the girls family members in front of them before doing the same to them. The only way out was to throw the girls into the Birdcage where they would become the prison toilets if they weren’t just raped and then killed by the inmates. In that order if they’re lucky, for there is no guards in the prison and the only order came from the block leaders of the different cell blocks.

In the room the meeting taking place in are the members of the Cauldron, Doctor Mother, Contessa, The Number Man, Legend, Alexandria and Eidolon.

“The shipgirls are blocking my powers, I cannot see their actions. They’re not powered by the shards, the Hebert girls shard merely summon them,” Contessa said.

“Their powers are unknown then. Any idea what they can do?” Legend asked.

“I used several paths of victories where I tried to kill The Admiral. All of them ends with me being killed. They can eat and sleep but don’t need either, but eating food does refuel and refill their ammo, but other than that they don’t need to eat. They also don’t need to breath, and they’re completely immune to any form of mind control or having their weapon systems turn against them. Tinker-tech or any other technology controlling power doesn’t work on them either. From what I glimpse from those paths, they’re able to do more then use naval weapons from their time. Some of the shipgirls are able to create shields, that activate whenever I tried to attack from a distance. When I try to kill her by getting close, the shipgirls usually stop me and when I did kill The Admiral, I never make it out alive for long. And there’s what happens to the shipgirls when I do manage to escape, they always track me down and even break into here more than once. And they have killed all of you in those paths. Their weapons are like String Theory’s Driver weapons,” Contessa said. (2)

“As in the weapon she was trying to knock the moon out of orbit with?" Alexandria asked.

"It explains why their weapons pack the same punch as if they're full sized," The Number Man said.

"You were saying something about them changing when The Admiral dies?" Eidolon asked.

"They become like... twisted versions of themselves and the longest where, I stayed alive. Global shipping had grind to a halt with all the shipping lanes have become too dangerous to sail through and coastal areas are mostly abandon as the shipgirls bomb them from off shore and raid them for supplies. They became even a bigger threat then the Endbringers, thanks to them being more active," Contessa said.

"Then we have to make sure The Admiral stays alive then," Doctor Mother said.

"Are the shipgirls really that powerful? Didn't we in those paths kill some of them?" Legend asks.

"About that, turns out they can be killed. Its just that they can be rebuilt and any weakness they had before, had been upgraded using modern technology. You yourself killed both Bismarck and Tirpitz, both of them were rebuilt and return the favor by using you as a wishbone and tearing you in half," Contessa said making Legend flinch at the thought of being torn in half. (1)

"Wait how do they upgrade themselves?" Alexandria asked.

"About that," Contessa said.

!

Brockton Bay -

Taylor lay back on her bed as she uses her ipad to view what's happening at the docks where her dad works at. Turns out her shipgirls can desummon their rigs placing them in a subspace pocket, or make their original ship's body to appear. HMS Warspite had summon her ship's body and it's now dock at the port at the dockyard. The other Royal Navy shipgirls are now living on her ship, Friedrich der Grobe is doing the same for the Iron Blood fleet. (3)

The shipgirls of both fleets have been busy as they been stripping the abandon ships of the boat graveyard for parts. They also been draining the boats of any remaining fuel and other fluids used to maintain machinery. Which they drink to top off their fuel tanks. Turns out the shipgirls resupply their fuel and ammo or repairing by eating and drinking, with the food being turn into what they need to fill up with. Drinking oil just works better then eating food which has to be converted into oil.

Both of the ships are still using technology from the time they were made, so the shipgirls are fixing that, installing new and better technology to replace old obsolete parts. They even installed some of the still working or repairable generators from the boats they been stripping and installed solar panels to the ships to help supply the ship with power. Which the other shipgirls have also been doing with what they can find and repair.

The shipgirls have been trying out new technology to see what it would do in working their old equipments. Old satellite dishes are being tried to improve their air and fire control radars. And installed Wi-Fi routers so they have internet access, which all the ships have done, even Victory who had a gas powered generator installed so that she can have power to run a computer system and electric lights.

The shipgirls also turn out to have a crew that operate their equipment, who look like them but can’t use the rigs and wear different uniforms to show what they do. Both Friedrich der Grobe and Warspite have their crew now full size and are the ones who are doing the installing of new equipments. Which also made it impossible for anyone to try sneaking onto the ship, for they can’t blend in with the shipgirls crew. (4)

“Well I have less to worry about,” Taylor said looking at the pile of letters on the table next to her bed.

It didn’t take long for the British and German governments to contact her. Followed by the US government trying to make sure they won’t be losing a parahuman like her to another country. They already railroaded the people who should had done something at her old school to be arrested for child endangerment, with the school being closed down for the amount of damage her shipgirls did. Trying to show that they can punish the ones who did nothing for 3 years, which Taylor responded that they should had done it when it would had matter. Which cause lots of trouble for the PRT with the public for allowing a Ward to trigger someone.

“The PRT is kissing up to me to get me to join the Wards to off set the bad press they’re getting,” Taylor said scanning one of the letters from said government department.

“Your aunt is inviting you to move to England and be a hero there,” HMS Glasgow said who is in the room with her, being one of the few maids whose outfit doesn’t make her blush. She’s been taking care of her and acts as her personal bodyguard while she’s in the hospital.

“And the German government is inviting you as well. You are more German then English,” Peter Strasser said. Whose outfit also doesn’t reveal too much, of her shapely and buxom body. She also acting as Taylor’s bodyguard while she’s in the hospital. Both of them have stayed behind picked by Taylor when she told them she doesn’t want all of them here.

“I have no idea what to do,” Taylor said. “Three governments want me, because I can summon warships as shipgirls giving me an army of parahumans.”

“Being a government back hero would give you the resources and funding to keep us fully stock with what we need to keep running,” Glasgow said.

“We can eat anything to use as fuel but we do need lots of it,” Peter Strasser said who had showed off that ability by eating the chicken bones from Taylor’s lunch, after she and Glasgow had eaten theirs, flesh and bones all.

“True,” Taylor said glade that she had summon the Royal Navy fleet, so she wouldn’t have to deal with people thinking she’s with the Empire. Speaking of which. “Have any of the gangs been trying anything with any of you?”

“Some men wearing the flag that mad man made tried to talk to us. We grabbed them and took them to the nearest police station,” Peter Strasser said. “I was lucky and was never apart of it, the others especially the ones who served the empire that your grandfather was apart of have nothing but disgust that people are still following those ramblings of that mad man.”

“That, I agree with,” Glasgow said.

“I want nothing to do with them,” Taylor said.

“You want us to crush them?” Peter Strasser ask.

“No, I still have too much to think about to even think about starting a gang war,” Taylor said. “I have this country kissing up to me so that, I stay and two other countries trying to get me to side with them. And to top it off, I’m part of several royal families, creating a political cluster fuck. Can you girls sense if I’m part of any other royal bloodline?”

“We only sense that you’re part of the royal family when you used your power, calling us,” Glasgow said.

“The same for us,” Peter Strasser said.

“When I used my power, you all sense it?” Taylor asks.

“Yes when you were using your power me and the others could all feel it, but we didn’t feel the Royal Navy being called till they showed up,” Peter Strasser said.

“We had heard the call before but it was faint. But the second time it was stronger,” Glasgow said.

“Maybe the more, I use it my power the stronger it becomes. I have no idea how to use my power and I don’t want to use it as I don’t want to summon more shipgirls while having no idea what to do with you all,” Taylor said.

“Maybe that’s why the American government is trying to keep you from leaving. You could easily summon the American shipgirls,” Peter Strasser said.

“Victory would have USS Constitution to talk to and it’s been a long time since she met her,” Glasgow said.

"Well seeing how, the United States never had a royal family, I won't be able to summon any American shipgirls," Taylor said.

"There are the other royal families you could be related to," Peter Strasser said.

"Giving me more shipgirls if, I used my powers," Taylor said wondering what she should do. Should she stay or risk it all and go to Europe and be apart of the royal family there. She's still a teen and now she's a princess who has her own army at her command. This is just too much for her to deal with.

!

1 - The shipgirls can be killed, but once they're destroyed it be like rebuilding a ship from the wreckage. And like in the game the shipgirls can refit and upgrade themselves with better equipment and technology.

Remember the shipgirls aren't human, they more like robots. And unlike in fiction where if a robot is destroyed, you can't just rebuild them, because of insert reason. The shipgirls can always be rebuilt from what's left of their bodies. There is no memory core or anything, as long as there is something left they can be rebuilt from it, even if its just melting down the metal to make a new ship.

2 - The shipgirls are all from the Azur Lane universe that work on completely different rules and shard powers that control minds or technology doesn’t work on them. Taylor’s shard merely summon them, not power them.

3 - I’m using both the game and anime cannon. Cherry picking what I like and don’t like from either.

4 - I’m not using the Manjuus because I just don’t like them.

!

 

!

“The information on the new shipgirls,” Dragon informed Piggot by radio.

“Good,” Piggot said as she’s been busy having the heads of the people responsible for this mess to happen, to be arrested and thrown under the bus.

The school staff have lost their jobs and teaching licenses and many are now in jail. The families of the girls who caused The Admiral to trigger tried to make a fuss but were told what would had happen if their girls weren’t thrown into the Birdcage. Hearing the recording of Victory telling The Admiral what she would do to the girls and their families, shut them up and she told them to just drop it as stopping over a hundred parahumans or shipgirls from killing them if they tried to do anything like suing the Hebert family. The PRT wouldn’t do much in stopping them, as a full scale battle would just result in the city being destroyed and them still ending up dead.

And to make sure they know what their daughters are really like, she had them watch a recording of them pleading not to be place into the prison to the shipgirls who went as escorts to make sure they are place into the prison. The shipgirls asked if they would rather have their families be place in the prison instead, the girls said yes. That shattered their parents who all left with haunted looks on their faces.

Speaking of the girls who caused this mess, form the report from the Birdcage. The girls have been repeatedly gang rape by the other prisoners and assaulted by them. The prison has no guards and the prisoners run it, with only the prison gangs and block leaders being the only form of order in the lawless prison. The girls are just objects to be used and traded by the prisoners, till they’re killed or kill themselves. Piggot gave them about a year before they’re dead.

Looking at the files of the first two shipgirls are Royal Navy ones from the Tribal-class Destroyers, joining their sister ship Eskimo. They are renowned as some of the greatest gun destroyers of WWII, as they have eight four-inch guns in four twin mounts. This gives them far more gun firepower than most other destroyers.

Cossack (F03) the shipgirl unlike the other Royal Navy shipgirls is dressed and looks like the people of Ukrainian steppe she’s named after.

Zulu (F18) is a tall African woman dressed as a Zulu warrior. Even armed with the iconic spear and shield.

The next shipgirl is actually from the Canada navy. Saguenay (D79) she’s a dusty skinned woman who is dressed as a native hunter trapper from Quebec, Canada.

Then came, Delhi (D47) of the Danae-class, Light Cruisers. She’s an India woman who is also dressed in the native style of dress.

Salmon (N65) the only submarine of the Royal Navy so far. A young woman riding one of those bike sub things,

Rawalpindi a armed merchant cruiser, an India woman who also wears the native style of dress.

Queen Mary a armed merchant cruiser, a British woman dress in a blue dress uniform with a white coat. She also has taken over as the home for the Royal Navy fleet, as her ship is a passage ship that was used as troop transport.

Also of note is that like many of the other members of the Royal Navy, they’re all rather buxom and clothes are either tight or show off their bodies.

Of the Iron Blood fleet there is only one new shipgirl. Atlantis a armed merchant cruiser, a blue eye blonde woman who unlike the others in her fleet is wearing a captain dress pants uniform that doesn’t show off her body. She is also has a Scottish Terrier named Ferry who is her mascot. And she too has taken over being the home for the rest of the Iron Blood fleet. (1)

The shipgirls have all been showing up one by one over the pass month since the Admiral was place in the hospital. Which she has been discharged and was escorted by her two fleets of shipgirls to the docks where she’s been living on the Queen Mary ship. Both fleets are extremely protective of her with both fleets having their members on patrol around the ship, both from the sky and below the water. The only one who can get on and off the Queen Mary whenever they want is the Admiral’s father.

The maids of the Royal Fleet have all been taking care of their Admiral and from what information they could gather from Danny Hebert. Victory has been teaching the Admiral all about being a English princess, with the aid of the Iron Blood shipgirl Friedrich der Grobe who taught her of being a German princess. They also been allowing people from both England and Germany governments onboard Queen Mary to talk with the Admiral. The Admiral also have been visited by her relatives from both England and Germany royal families.

Thanks to both governments pulling some diplomatically strings both ships Queen Mary and Atlantis now both sail under the flags of their countries. Meaning that any actions by the PRT on either ships would be seen as an assault on either governments. But it also means that neither ship could do anything without it being seen as an attack on the USA, making it a deadlock for all parties. The PRT can’t do anything without causing an international scene and neither can the two ships. Which help to ease tensions as having two armed warships in the harbor of the city was worrisome.

Piggot has no idea what to do, seeing how the government heads above her have been hounding her to get the Admiral to not leave the country. Her fleet couldn't be stop by the government as all said and done, they are all still warships from other countries and trying to sized them would be an act of war. And it's publicly known at this point, which also caused the gangs of the city to stay clear of them, as none want to deal with a group who are all heavily armed with weapons that are made to fight armor plated vessels.

Speaking of the gangs, the shipgirls of both fleets have also been patrolling the city both day and night, any gang member or any other criminals were grabbed, and toss into the nearest police station. The shipgirls have drove the crime rate where they patrol down to rock bottom. The Merchants have been hit the hardest by the shipgirls as they lost many of their dealers, with the shipgirls keeping the money the drug dealers had on them, as well as any other criminal they caught. They used the money they collected to buy things they needed, which is mostly food.

The food is a big question mark, when the shipgirls hit a safe house of one of the gangs. They not only strip the safe houses of all the money but also all the food kept there. From what the agents watching the shipgirls have discovered many of them having been drinking oil and gasoline, which makes sense as they’re ships not humans. But for the food they been seen eating, it's still up in the air of what that does for them. With the best guess is that its used as fuel for their boilers.

There are still lots of unknowns about the shipgirls, seeing how they don't talk with the PRT agents sent to question them. Or allow any sort of testing of their powers. The only way to get them to test their powers would be having the Admiral give the order. But that's a whole other problem all together, she refuses to talk with any PRT agent. All her department could do is watch and gather what intelligence they could about them.

!

Elsewhere -

Coil have been busy since that woman had him use his power with hers to see what paths could be taken with the Admiral. Her powers didn't work, because none of the paths of victory where she attack the Admiral didn't end with her being killed. The Admiral has all the power he wants, an army of parahumans and ones who could be brought back to life when destroyed. But there is no timeline where any of his attempts to gain control works.

The shipgirls from the data collected in all of those other timelines, showed that they’re not produced by the Admiral’s power. No her power just summons them, using the ships if the ships are still around as a base to bring them to this world. They can eat anything and use it to replenish their ammo, fuel, and other supplies, or repair their bodies.

Coil shakes as he remembers the timelines where the Admiral was killed and what her fleet became. Pale bodies and white hair…. wielding weapons that are part sea life….. what they did to the capes who tried to fight them… Coil remembers hiding while the screams of Glory Girl stop with only the sounds of crunching and snapping bones and tearing flesh replace it.

“No, can’t let them become Sirens,” Coil said with a shudder.

Luckily there is a way to get rid of her, he just has to help her along in moving to either England or Germany. Wherever she went her fleet would follow her. If she stays here in the city, things would just end up much harder for him overall with his operations. He notice a news alert on his computer and turns on the tv in his office.

On the screen, is live news coverage of a firefight in the train yard part of the city. The shipgirls had stumbled on the safe house of Skidmark while he was in it and the Merchant leader are now in a firefight with the fleet. The two shipgirls who found the hideout are two destroyers from the Royal Navy, the sister ships HMS Ardent and HMS Acasta.

Both young looking shipgirls are tanking the gunfire from the Merchant gang members showing no signs of harm. Coil remembers how only heavy weapons or a tank had the firepower to harm the shipgirls. The two girls were moving around taking down the gang members by grabbing their guns out of their hands and knocking them out by hitting them. Skidmark with his ability to create a deflector effect, a type of force field that push things with about as much force as a gusty wind made stronger by layering the effect on top of each other. Was the only one that making any headway on the two shipgirls by pushing them back.

Bursting out of a building came one of Squealer‘s creations, a makeshift tank made out of what started off as a van before Squealer got a hold of it. The gun turret on the tank fired an energy blast as it burst out of the wall, striking the two shipgirls, sending them flying. Ardent was screaming as her legs are gone while Acasta is missing half of her torso and wasn’t moving. Mush came out of hiding in his trash armor form wielding a dumpster, which he used to smash on top of the screaming Ardent repeatedly. The destroyer even in her damage state couldn’t just be smash underneath a metal dumpster, and was screaming as Mush continued to try to smash her flat with the dumpster that’s getting more damaged then the shipgirl.

The Konigsberg-class light cruisers sisters, Konigsberg, Karlsruhe, and Koln of the Iron Blood fleet came to the rescue firing their guns at the trash golem. The shells weighing several hundred pounds tore through the Mush’s trash body which stuck the hideout behind him, causing the building to blow up. The tank fired it’s energy weapon at the 3 sisters but unlike what happen to the smaller and less armored destroyers, the blast struck the sisters who just powered through it and return fire with a volley that blew up the makeshift tank, killing Squealer who was inside the burning wreckage.

The 3 sisters began firing their lighter guns, which are their anti-aircraft guns their single-mounted 8.8 cm guns to make short work of the remaining gang members who tried shooting at the sisters. When the firing stops among the dead is Skidmark, who tried to deflect the shells but was just overwhelmed by the sheer firepower.

The sisters rush to the two Royal Navy shipgirls and attended to them. More shipgirls came rushing to the scene, along with the heroes and the polices. The two fallen shipgirls were flown away by the flying members of their fleet heading back to their base.

Coil knew that the two fallen shipgirls would be repaired and be back patrolling. It happen enough times before, even when there was nothing left of their bodies. The shipgirl would always be back, somehow. He hadn’t discovered how they returned in those timelines as he was too busy trying to survive. But at least the proof that the shipgirls weren’t invincible is out, with a weapon that is powerful enough like the energy cannon Squealer somehow created that can damage a armored warship.

The destroyers like the full-size ones, are still warships but they lack the armor of the bigger ships, instead relying on speed and maneuverable. They’re the fastest of the shipgirls, not counting the the flying ones, and are glass cannons compared to the larger shipgirls. But as Mush showed when he tried smashing Ardent with that dumpster, trying to damage one with blunt force would only work if the power behind it could damage a warship class destroyer.

The larger and more powerful warships are able to take punishments that would take out a destroyer class. The light cruisers sisters Konigsberg, Karlsruhe, and Koln, stronger and more armored bodies did take damage from the energy cannon, but unlike the lighter bodies of the destroyers could take it. The toughness level of the shipgirls only goes higher from there, only a few capes have the power to even damage the battleships and carriers. The warships were built to withstand being hit by the weapons that they're armed with, which would sink most modern warships. As getting close enough for the range of cannon fire, isn't a strategy that modern navies use anymore, so modern warships don't have to be as armored as the older ships.

"She needs to leave the city before things get out of hand," Coil said to himself having seen what happens in those timelines where that woman used the gangs to take care of the Admiral. The shipgirls still knew it was her and....

Coil closed his eyes remembering and wanting to make sure that nightmare would never happen. The shipgirls could never become Sirens, they have to deal with the endbringers already. He just have to help the Admiral along in either moving to England or Germany. Anything that happens to her from there wouldn't be by his hands and the shipgirls wouldn't be chasing after him this time around, if it does.

!

1 - The shipgirls are from the game Victory Belles.

!