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First for Vampire.

>>39080533
>In which a momentary slip in judgement has severe and dangerous consequences.
FAP ANGEEEEEEL

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Zuikaku launches herself at Kaga's midsection with a cry. The other CV is larger, stronger and well-muscled; but her face betrays surprised at the ferocity of the smaller girl's assault. They go tumbling and rolling in the sand, ripping at each other's clothing as they struggle to come to grips.

Any other day you might've tried to nudge the squabble closer to the waves and sat back with a good beer. But right now, you're quite literally seeing red.

You don't remember what came ripping out of your throat just then – but it was savage and raw enough to make them look up in shock. You loom over them, glaring from beneath the scrambled-egg bedecked brim of your dress cover.

“GET ON YOUR GODDAMNED FEET, SO HELP ME GOD, GET TO ATTENTION RIGHT THIS FUCKING INSTANT!” Your voice goes snarling over the empty beach and stomps away across the calm waters.

They rise – but they don't come to attention. Zuikaku is staring at you wild-eyed; the fury of battle still in her eyes, but it's Kaga who speaks first. “Or what, yankee? You're out of canes to hand out, it looks like.”

It would seem her visual memory is acute.

“I've still got two boots,” you growl, the anger rumbling rough in your throat, “and if you don't fall in line right now you'll taste l-”

>>39080533
Planefag, you just repeated part of that post.

>>39080533
>Double posting on the same post
Planefag pls

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>>39080571

You're not quite sure how she hits you, just then – only that for a few seconds, every nerve in your chest goes numb, and then you're hitting the firm sand like a sack of wet mice. Hands of literal steel ball up in your shirt, and then you find yourself hauled upright to hover inches away from the bloodied, battered face of Kaga.

Her brow's been split open by a good crack across the brow; and beneath the flesh is revealed the dull gleam of metal. The wound is bleeding over her eye, caking it with congealing filth, and the orbit of the other is rimmed with steel where Zuikaku's fist split the skin. Later it'll be a shiner; but now it's just swelling up, red – and at the center is one rage-filled eye.

It punches through the numbness in your mind and begins flooding your internal spaces; lights sparking and shorting out as the tide rises. Fear. Cold, mad, terrified, gibbering fear, images of the abyssals, the first abyssals, the one flaming awful shattered eye glowing in the cold wet dark as it came for you – the embodiment of death, the most incredible concentration of resources turned to the purpose of destruction that man ever made, compressed into the neutron-dense nugget of a body and given a human's hatred.

As the shock of her blow fades – comes the true, spine-tingling terror.

“You might get away with snide jabs in a mess hall, but direct threats on an open beach?” Kaga snarls, and you can feel the heat of her body – a draft of air powerful enough to ripple your clothes. “Do you want to die, you fucking scum? I'll kill you. I was MADE to kill you. WHO DO YOU FUCKING THINK YOU ARE!?”

>Someone who's fucked up and very much doesn't want to die – too much to even find words, assuming you could even find the breath.
>“I'm expendable. Like every man who's worn this uniform.”
>“Your commanding officer – one of the few you'll ever get, because of shit like this.”

>>39080533
That's not how you get doubles

>>39080571
Oh goddamn it Kaga, you really do want to get wrecked.

>>39080533
>he can't even doublepost correctly

As expected of fap angel.

>>39080601
>>“I'm expendable. Like every man who's worn this uniform.”
>>“Your commanding officer – one of the few you'll ever get, because of shit like this.”

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>>39080584
>>39080575

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>>39080601

>>39080601
>“Your commanding officer – one of the few you'll ever get, because of shit like this.”

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>>39080601
>“I'm expendable. Like every man who's worn this uniform. But I'm still your commanding officer – one of the few you'll ever get, because of shit like this.”

Also,
>INSERT KAMINA JOKES HERE

>>39080601
>Your commanding officer – one of the few you'll ever get, because of shit like this.”

>>39080601
"I'm an American, you useless bitch. The race who lay your glorious Nippon people low with a nuke. And so help me God if you do not put me down, America will see to it that it will happen AGAIN."

>>39080601
>>“Your commanding officer – one of the few you'll ever get, because of shit like this.”
SHOW NO FEAR

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>>39080601

>“Your commanding officer – one of the few you'll ever get, because of shit like this.”

>>39080601
>>“I'm expendable. Like every man who's worn this uniform.”
>>“Your commanding officer – one of the few you'll ever get, because of shit like this.”

>>39080601
>"I'm expendable. You can be too"

>>39080601
>>“Your commanding officer – one of the few you'll ever get, because of shit like this.”
Lesser men flee where Goto and I stand against your stupidity.

>>39080601
>>“I'm expendable. Like every man who's worn this uniform.”
>>“Your commanding officer – one of the few you'll ever get, because of shit like this.”

>>39080601
>>“Your commanding officer – one of the few you'll ever get, because of shit like this.”

Did she seriously just punch a flag officer?

>>39080601
>>“Your commanding officer – one of the few you'll ever get, because of shit like this.”
>>"If you can't handle basic fucking team-building on top of attacking a superior officer of a goddamned foreign nation, you're going to be SCRAPPED." In as many words as we can say while suffering from our wounds.

>>39080601
>“I'm expendable. Like every man who's worn this uniform.”
>“Your commanding officer – one of the few you'll ever get, because of shit like this.”

>>39080601
>“I'm expendable. Like every man who's worn this uniform.”
>“Your commanding officer – one of the few you'll ever get, because of shit like this.”
>"Now let go of my shirt or you're not going to like what happens."

>>39080601
>>39080638
More of this
>>39080645
None of this

>>39080601
>>“Your commanding officer – one of the few you'll ever get, because of shit like this.”

HAVE FUN RUSTING ALONE IN A GODDAMN SCRAPYARD.

>>39080601
>“Your commanding officer – one of the few you'll ever get, because of shit like this.”

>>39080601
>“I'm expendable. Like every man who's worn this uniform.”

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>>39080580
What are ye doin on you sorry ass, you poofter? GIT TO WRITAN IT, FOR PETE'S SAKES

No seriously chap, writefag this shit. It's good shit.

>>39080630
Eh, no problem fapangel.

>>39080645
>“Your commanding officer – one of the few you'll ever get, because of shit like this.”
>"I'm an American, you useless bitch. The race who lay your glorious Nippon people low with a nuke. And so help me God if you do not put me down, America will see to it that it will happen AGAIN."
Combine these for maximum effect. Kick what's left of the FOR THE EMPRAH out of her.

>>39080601
>“I'm expendable. Like every man who's worn this uniform.”
>“Your commanding officer – one of the few you'll ever get, because of shit like this.”

>>39080601
>>“Your commanding officer – one of the few you'll ever get, because of shit like this.”
she wants to pull this shit, she has america and goto to respond to. Kaga can do nothing to us, and the admiral has an image to keep.

>>39080601
Okay, NOW we complain to Goto. His useless ships are attacking FLAG OFFICERS now. There is a line that we have LONG since crossed and she needs to be brought to heel right the fuck now.

And if she can't, she needs to be throw to the scrappers.

>>39080601
>“I'm expendable. Like every man who's worn this uniform.”
>“Your commanding officer – one of the few you'll ever get, because of shit like this.”

>>39080704
>Taunting the other IJN ships who might help you out of this mess.

Really, anon? Really? Are you that retarded?

>>39080709
>Okay, NOW we complain to Goto. His useless ships are attacking FLAG OFFICERS now. There is a line that we have LONG since crossed and she needs to be brought to heel right the fuck now.
We insulted her, now we take it like a man.

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>>39080704
>>39080645
No. We're trying to end a fight, not start three more.

>>39080601
>>“Your commanding officer – one of the few you'll ever get, because of shit like this.”

>>39080601
>“Your commanding officer – one of the few you'll ever get, because of shit like this.”
>“And I'm expendable, just like every man who's worn this uniform."

>>39080724
He is.

>>39080724
Little Miss Bitch is going full GRORIOUS NIPPON on an American Admiral. This is an acceptable response in kind.

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>>39080724
PILOT!

...wait, wrong thread.

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>>39080709

I think I know who could help with that.
She might also make a good secretary.

>>39080742
No, no it is not.

Planefag, stop cackling.

>>39080601

>“Your commanding officer – one of the few you'll ever get, because of shit like this.”
>“And I'm expendable, just like every man who's worn this uniform."

>>39080724
Never underestimate stupidity and GODDAMNIT YOU STUPID CLIPPY THING I'LL KILL YOU AGAIN.

Still have no idea how to vote: Kaga needs a dose of "you do not fucking punch a flag officer and get away with it", but I don't like any of the options.

>>39080742
At the risk of not coming out of this alive because the response calls for making Zuikaku less enthused about thrashing Kaga and making Akagi sympathetic to Kaga? No.

>>39080724
Yea, yea the anons is.

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Whelp, looks like we have a volunteer for the scrap dry docks.

>>39080702
I have little to no knowledge of British naval actions in the Pacific.

I'll do my damn best.

>Hornet is still right there
>kaga's gonna get her kidneys perforated
oh no

>>39080800
oh yes.

>>39080727
>We insulted her, now we take it like a man.

No you utter fucking moron. We do not "take it like a man". We are an admiral, she is our subordinate. Specifically, a subordinate who had just engaged in a fight with ANOTHER subordinate after bullying yet another subordinate.

She is 100% in the wrong. You do not ever get to talk lip back to flag officers, and you SURE AS FUCKING SHIT DO NOT GET TO HIT THEM WITHOUT REPERCUSSIONS THAT LAST YOUR WHOLE LIFE HOWEVER SHORT IT MAY BE.

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>>39080800

>>39080800
Guess who isn't equipping her bow and it's not attentive to its surroundings.

called. writing!

>>39080814

Also, if that's why you picked that choice - if you were actually Settle, you'd probably - oh god, please stop thinking like this you are literally close to death right now

>>39080800
It's ok, she's a ship. She doesn't have kidneys to shank.

>>39080794

>Repulse: Sunk

>Prince of Wales: Sunk

>WHO BITCH THIS IS??

>>39080837
Quiet planefag, you're ruining my fun.

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>>39080794
Yiss
THIS PLEASES BRITANNIA
>www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHNfvJc99YY

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>>39080800
>>39079167
>Hopefully nothing like it happens, but Hornet snapping and prison-shanking the fuck out of Kaga with her black arrow and screaming about how it felt to burn her shitty little island would be a sight to see

>>39080837
No, I was just saying that to the utterly idiotic "We insulted her we take it like a man" post. Admirals and Generals are on a level above and you don't get to beat them up like you would a lippy private just because your feewings got hurt.

Either now or later, there will be Hell to pay for this.

>>39080814
Flag officers don't generally give the other said subordinate a cane to hit them with either.

>>39080791
Situation's a bit trickier than that. Sure, insubordination's got to have some sort of punishment, but loosing one of our better CV's over an incident? Not completely sure of the war situation whether we can spare that.

Was pretty impulsive to gamble on a former enemy's respect for their now new commander, now Settle has to deal with potentially hundreds of tons of angry ship in his face.

I wanted the corgis...

>>39080888
You're pretending that the traditional rules of conduct apply 100 percent.

Man, at this rate, there isn't going to be anything left for the abyssals to kill.

ha ha time to scrap Kaga and use her as modernization fodder for Akagi.

Akagi is forced to watch the entire process.

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>>39080837
Palanquin ship when

Why didn't we just take Hornet with us and bug out?

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>>39080912
...maybe that's the plan. Reverse psychology and all that.

>>39080903
>I wanted the corgis...
Planefag seemed to like the idea, I wonder if they're en-route as a thundering wave of cavalry

>>39080912
We can always pick up as Admiral Goto trying to deal with the aftermath of American withdrawal from the military alliance after their admiral got killed by a rogue shipgirl.

>>39080923
because there are a number of anons who are projecting their own problems into their decision making

>>39080914
Aww, that's uncalled for. Akagi has been pretty nice till now.

I'd let Zuikaku watch though.

>>39080923
Firing a sidearm into the ceiling, etc etc.

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>>39080816
KONGOU HIJACK

>>39080938
Now that sounds like a fun quest.

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>>39080923
We got a bit of PILOT into our bloodstream in Los Angeles.

Not that I'm complaining.

>>39080601
>Who do you fucking think you are
>she's in ship mode

PUT ME DOWN BEFORE THE WEE MEN SWARM

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>>39080938
>this proves to the Americans that shipgirls are too dangerous to use
>they proceed to scrap all of theirs

Congrats Kaga, you managed to kill the Arizona TWICE.

>>39080962
Hyperactive psycho bitch.

Ougghta introduce her to the fucking dogs. they'd get along well.

>>39080923
Cause that would be reasonable and and most anons here arn't it seems.

>>39080938

Abyssal Quest, where the Abyssals try in vain to actually find shipgirls to fight who aren't already being sunk by other shipgirls as a world war breaks out.

>>39080983
>Congrats Kaga, you managed to kill the Arizona TWICE.
If Kaga does kill Settle, then Arizona might just kill her right back.

>>39080981
>Fae mutiny
That I'd pay to watch.

Fat chance of that though, being moonspeak little suckers.

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>>39080744
>>39080974
PLOT TWIST: Settle is Ian's alternate-world self

Oh man, if Arizona was in creepy stalker mode right now...
-.-- --- ..- / .... .- ...- . / ..-. ..- -.-. -.- . -.. / ..- .--. / -. --- .--

>>39080983

Scrapping in canon isn't disassembling the shipgirl, just recycling her equipment and discharging her into the civilian population. Not sure if it'd be the same in Planefag canon, though.

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Kaga is having a bad day

>>39081024
>"YOU HEAR ME YOU LITTLE SHITS? GET YOUR SHIP UNDER CONTROL."

>>39081037
Nah, this is where Sammy comes in to save the day.

Or maybe one of the non-Arizona battleships.

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>>39080916
>mfw I have plans for that in Wizard

>implying wizard

>>39081037
Well fuck, my morse is a little rusty.

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>>39081037
Shit, stop talking in morse man! I don't have a decoder!

>>39081046
MFW

>>39080601
>It punches through the numbness in your mind and begins flooding your internal spaces; lights sparking and shorting out as the tide rises
Not sure if pretty metaphor or foreshadowing

>>39081075
'YOU HAVE FUCKED UP NOW'

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>>39081068
Do eet faggit
So demands lady Remilia

>>39081046
>hetza artwork

ok be honest how many dicks did he give her

>>39081083
Settle is actually a ship slut

>>39081037
I get it

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>>39081121
>BB-61 was inside us the whole time

>>39081111
This makes me feel bad for Remilia.

In a hilarious way.

>>39080601
>[x] “I'm expendable. Like every man who's worn this uniform.”

>>39080601
>WHO DO YOU FUCKING THINK YOU ARE!?
I think I am some one who was on the winning side the last time we squared off

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>>39081114
it is a mystery

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>>39081161
Well, be glad that Kongou hasn't messed with her in this manga...
>https://danbooru.donmai.us/pools/7564

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OI WHERES DA GRIMLUG?

>>39081220
Damn, that's a lot of Dakka on that ship.

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>>39081220
Needs more slugs anon.

>>39081237
NEVER ENOUGH DAKKA!

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Message from Arizona, admiral!
>- .... .. ... / - .... .-. . .- -.. / .. ... / .- -... ... --- .-.. ..- - . / -... --- -. -.- . .-. ...

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>>39081237
STILL NOT 'ENUFF DAKKA

>>39081293
It's not that bad, considering 4chan

>>39081336
Man, I figure Ari would keep speaking in morse at this rate.
.-- .... -.-- / - .- .-.. -.- / .-- .... . -. / .-- --- .-. -.. ... / .- .-. . / . -- .--. - -.--

>hornet? HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT STABBING THIS BITCH WITH A BLACK ARROW?!

>[Dr. Strangelove intensifies]

>>39081424
>Mein Carrier! I can walk!
Strangely in-character.

>>39081424
>Mein fuhrer! I can walk! I CAN INTO SINKING ABYSSALS!

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>>39081473
Hey, it's angelfap. We're used to it.

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>>39081392
It fits. it makes sense. It is a thing one looks at with a certain amount of regret, anyway.

>>39081424
So the shipsluts want to take our bodily fluids?

Kaga's on it, at least.

>Inb4 Settle is actually the crippled spirit of the Kentucky
>Or the Montana

>>39081392
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>>39081528
Come to think of it, now that we've got Sammy the only Americans that he's not drawn yet are Settle and Harder, right?

>>39081424
This is where Hornet goes all Kongou on her ass.

>>39081551
Hue.

>>39081528
Yes, it should be a thing now.

>>39081550
>Montana

TOMASO MONTANA?!

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>>39081575
Fuck you, I spilt milk on my keyboard.

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>>39081587

your milk, eh?

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>>39081611
That's lewd.

>>39081611
Dude, fresh milk from the grocery.
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Staring into the mad, swollen, fury-filled eye of the once stoically-reserved Kaga, it suddenly comes to you that you now understand exactly what the diplomats meant about the duality of Japanese culture during your extensive pre-transfer briefing. Ancient, strict authoritarianism... and beneath it, a pulsing river of pent-up fury, like a long-dormant volcano just waiting for some moron to kick the lid off.

Funny, what you think of when you're about to die.

“I am,” you say, your words tired and blunt, “your superior officer.”

You see her lips twist in disdain and denial, but she pushes past the blunt truth to find the technical one. “Goto's my Admiral,” she snarls, and shakes you once. “You're just-”

>>39081628

yes.

'fresh milk'.

from the 'grocery'.

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>>39081641

“-another fucking yankee,” Hornet says from directly behind her. Kaga's head snaps around with another violent epithet forming on her lips – which dies there when she finds herself staring down the long shaft of the only “live” arrow in Hornet's quiver; the one she never goes anywhere without.

The black arrow.

“Anyone can get a forty-percent hit rate when they ambush you. Isn't that right, you backstabbing slant-eyed cunt?” Hornet's lovely dark eyes are as cold and jagged as the obsidian arrowhead hovering eight inches away from Kaga's nose.

“Hornet,” you say, soft but firm.

Hornet keeps her flinty eyes on Kaga. “Yes, Admiral?”

“Stand down, Hornet.”

Hornet doesn't budge a single muscle. “Sir?”

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>>39081656

The terror screaming up and down your nerves suddenly stops stock-still – seeping into your very marrow. Your entire body seems heavy and cold as ice as the implications sink in.

“Hornet,” you say softly. “Who am I?”

“My Admiral,” she says without hesitation. “Mine.”

“For now,” you say. “One of two.” You turn and face Kaga's cheek – she's still staring over her shoulder at the wicked glint of the obsidian arrowhead. “Kaga.”

Slowly she turns her face back to you – her face is flushed; the pendulum of fight-flight swinging away form violence, and now her one swollen eye is simply wide, wide with everything.

“Who am I?”

“A-admiral Settle,” she says softly – and with a start, she damn near drops you, as if just realizing she'd been hoisting you upright. Your weight comes down on your bad leg, first, and you go down like a sack of drunken bricks. She holds her hands out in front of her, staring with one swollen eye as if she can't believe she *has* hands.

>>39081656
And then the corgies swarm them both.

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>>39081656
>“Anyone can get a forty-percent hit rate when they ambush you. Isn't that right, you backstabbing slant-eyed cunt?”

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>>39081673

You struggle up from the ground, gaining little until you feel Hornet's arm slip around your waist and hoist you up easily, her slender frame nonwithstanding. You stare at Kaga staring at her hands, her battered face blank with shock, and a lot of words tumble through your mind as you think furiously -

- and they tumble right past your tongue to land in your stomach as a cold lump you know well from your Academy days; the feeling that you've just fucked up immensely – that you have, in fact, failed as an officer and a gentleman. You stand there, aching and clueless for several seconds, questioning not only your ability to serve, but your ability to continue to serve – as a Court Martial will no doubt be doing very shortly.

But that's not the message you can send to them – after all, you're not the one that started swinging. You slap a cap on that flaring ember quickly, but the heat's enough to get your tongue working again.

“We are one Navy,” you say slowly, your ribs aching a bit as you speak. “And we're only fighting one war.”

You can see Kaga transforming before you; almost your mirror image – the cold distance of professional conduct sliding neatly over her true self like a glove. She simply comes to a more regal stance, staring straight past your shoulder as if she's not aching; making no attempt to stop the dripping blood from her busted brow dripping off her chin and onto her white uniform. “Yes, Admiral Settle.”

“Look at me, Kaga,” you say, an edge creeping into your voice.

She looks.

“Now look at the ground,” you instruct.

She gives you that particular kind of blank-eyed emptiness that only the truly talented officer can manage; a silent way of conveying her utter lack of faith in the sense of anything you fucking say. Her head swivels dutifully – and that one swollen eye damn near pops out of her head as she sees the corgis.

All of them.

>>39081656
Fuck yeah Hornet

>>39081656
>>39081673
Atta girl.

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>>39081698

oh boy here we go

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>>39081698

This is, after all, the torpedo range – and the CVs only need a corner of it for archery practice, after all. You – and judging from the disturbed expressions of everyone else present, nobody – noticed them arrive; because the energetic little demons and their hyperactive, nigh manic yapping is as inseparable from them as is light from the Sun.

And yet here they are, sitting in a wide circular blob around this little tableau, plopped down on their haunches – and every one of them stock-still and deathly silent, their eyes fixed on Kaga.

Waiting.

“Now back... to me,” you instruct. Kaga obeys, her face full of confusion and upset in equal amounts.

“They were expendable,” you quote. “I am, too. All soldiers are, in the end.” You shake your head once, keeping eye contact. “Maybe because you're...” you sigh, letting that go. “Which war did you come back to fight, Kaga?” You lean forward, and almost lose your balance – your entire body seems empty now, a slab of dead meat, ice cold and immobile. Only that voice keeps rolling on, those sepulchral tones you hardly recognize as your own. “Now... back to *him.*”

She turns her head towards the direction you tilted yours – and finds Hate. He's standing stock-still, forty-odd leashes slung in a twisted mass over one shoulder. Seeing he has the stage, he fixes his characteristic focused glare on Kaga... and raises one hand to his shoulder, fingers poised to SNAP.

“Now back to me,” you say, your voice whisper thin.

Kaga looks back to you.

“It's really, really easy to die, Kaga,” you say with the simple misery of experience weighing your words. “So think real hard on what you want it to be for.”

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>>39081698
>and that one swollen eye damn near pops out of her head as she sees the corgis.
>All of them.

>>39081698
>corgis
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>39081726
>READY TO DIE??! MAKE IT COUNT!

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>>39081726
>“It's really, really easy to die, Kaga,” you say with the simple misery of experience weighing your words. “So think real hard on what you want it to be for.”
Shit bro, that's deep

Guys. We fucked up real bad. It stopped before the point of no return, but it's still real fuckin bad. We need to think before we egg on petty fights; we are the Admiral, we are the one who absolutely must make sure everyone else is doing their job and cooperating, or at the very least, aren't killing each other.

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Beware, lest you find yourself amidst a corgy of destruction.

>>39081726
So Hate and company were just standing there waiting to torpedo the *fuck* out of Kaga if she actually tried to kill Settle?

>>39081790
Now all that we would need is Arizona just off some ways in the harbor with her guns pointed directly at Kaga.

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>>39081790
MEXICAN STANDOFF! IN YOKOSUKA!

>>39081780
I think somehow we're beginning to salvage this. Still probably not as good as it could've gone. But we managed to turn this around, if only slightly.

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>>39081780
It's called Wednesday.

>>39081780
The question is, what provoked Zuikaku?
She was ready to beat the shit out of Kaga, even though she didn't have a metaphorical dog in the race.

>40+ PT boats surrounding a carrier group
>laughing_Iranians.jpg

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>>39081726
>"It's really, really easy to die, Kaga," you say with the simple misery of experience weighing your words. "So think real hard on what you want it to be for."

Let's hope this gets through her head. In the meantime, I'll be over her with the popcorn.

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I just dropped into this thread to say: FUCK JAPAN.

Carry on.

>>39081780

No fucking shit, we should not have gone into the middle of that fight like that.

>>39081819

>What provoked Zuikaku

Kaga

>>39081819
Kaga was shittalking CVEs

>>39081813
Message from Arizona, admiral!
>--. ..- -. ... / .-.. .- .. -.. --..-- / ... .- -.-- / - .... . / .-- --- .-. -.. .-.-.-

>>39081819
She probably knew what Kaga was doing after previous experiences of being ridiculed by her.

>>39081819
I know Zuikaku hates Kaga on sight, but why I'm a bit fuzzy on.

>Still no South Dakota

YOU HAVE ONE JOB PLANEFAG

>>39081726
The best part is, she'll never know how close she got to winning this if I hadn't reminded everyone that fap angel gave Hornet a WMD.

>And now we RUB. HER. FACE. IN. HER. 'POOP'. Bad bitch.

>>39081833
No, Kaga was shittalking 5th CarDiv. Shoukaku and Zuikaku were always seen as the runts of the First Air Fleet. Inexperienced and green with pilots scrounged from the bottom of the IJN's aviation barrel. They didn't even get to attack ships at Pearl Harbor, and Zuikaku and Shoukaku ended their careers as toothless bait at Leyte Gulf while Kaga died like a warrior.

It's a serious case of elitism.

Huh, where are feelthyHornet and co? You'd think they'd be making fun of the retard who wanted to go "I'm an American, you useless bitch."

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>>39081872
>Still double-posting

>>39081859
FUCK OFF, ASSHOLE. YOU'LL GET YOUR FUCKING SHIP WHEN YOU GET IT.

>>39081833
But....she wasn't was she?
She was shit talking Hornet because Hornet was having issues.
Unless it was the "ASW escort crack"

>>39081872
Planefag, please to not be doubleposting inside one post twice. That is quadrupleposting, and that is quadruplebad.

>>39081879
Hornet does not fucking have a fucking nuclear weapon. She went to the bottom before nuclear weapons were a fucking thing.

>>39081839
Thank you.

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>Still no Nevada
Come on. All those secondary turrets around the mast is kawaii as fuck.

>>39081902

Fuck off. Best treaty BB deserves to be seen!

>>39081903
>Unless it was the "ASW escort crack"
Exactly.

>>39081910
How does a family end up with a name like "Hate"?

>>39081898
Sammie B.?

>>39081898
That has to be Sammy.

>>39081898
>“No,” a bright, youthful voice opines from behind your shoulder. “That was fucking AWESOME.”
Sammy B???

>>39081911
..-. ..- .-.. .-.. / -... .-. --- .- -.. ... .. -.. . ..--..

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>>39081879
>The best part is, she'll never know how close she got to winning this if I hadn't reminded everyone that fap angel gave Hornet a WMD.

Jesus Christ you're full of yourself.

>>39081879
>Implying Hornet has a WMD
>Implying I'm not the one who was going on about Hornet shanking a bitch
m8

>>39081910
Fuck around and shit on the beach practice? I almost wish I was a corgi.

>>39081898
>“No,” a bright, youthful voice opines from behind your shoulder. “That was fucking AWESOME.”

INCOMING!

>>39081879
My money's on firebombing. Not a WMD.

And Firebombing can be at least as bad.

>>39081898
Harder, the voice of reason? God knows he'd love that.

>>39081929
There's a guy in New Zealand with "Fuck" for a family name. These things happen.

>>39081929
Oh, you fucking think they call me by the name I got from my family?

Haha, fucking no.

>>39081945
Yeah I thought it was pretty obviously the Doolittle raid once we took the time to puzzle it out

>>39081881
>died like a warrior
>got lit up on the first proper naval engagement
More like died like a fucking chump. You've been playing that IJN propaganda game too long.

>>39081903
>>39081925
>>39081833
>>39081819

She compared the 5th to Hornet. And the 5th took greater offense to that comparison.

Because, apparently, Fuck Americans.

>>39081958
... I fucking knew it.

>>39081879
I'm pretty sure that's VT/8, you elitist idiot.

So is the black arrow just a fuckton of B-25s then?

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>>39081958
YOU... WOT...

YA TOSSER

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>>39081945
>>39081879
The black arrow has been described on several occasions as something she's both ashamed to carry and something she doesn't want to actually use.

Now think. What do arrows represent for carriers in Kancolle? What do they turn into?

Why would she be ashamed of something like that?

>>39081951
Not to mention the two heterosexual dudes who married for rugby tickets.

NZ is a strange place.

my weaksauce speedy google of "uss hornet black arrow" show nothing, what is it?

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>>39081922
>not Colorado

>>39081898
Kaga is in for way more shit than the admiral once the rest of the girls find out what happened

>>39081996
>Now think. What do arrows represent for carriers in Kancolle? What do they turn into?

Uhh... shore leave?

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>>39081726

You hold a palm towards Hate, and he lowers his poised fingers. He gives you a slight nod, and keeps an eye – and an army of corgis – on Kaga as Hornet helps you away from the place. Your chest is already feeling better, but it's really -

- you twist away from Hornet and manage to stumble into the long beach-grass before you lose your lunch entire. You kneel there with the long grass tickling your face as you empt out into dry heaves, and then you struggle to one knee, focusing on your breathing, focusing on your discipline, finding the smooth hard fact of your rank and your duty and squeezing it tight in your mind till it hurts – but the shakes, if they come, are gone by the time you're ready to open your eyes.

Not that it can unfuck what you've just royally fucked up, but – at least its something.

You glance around and find Hornet some distance away, helping Hate clip leashes to the corgis – he must've come down to collect them after their daily “fuck around and shit on the beach” practice, as he characterized it once, back in the 'States. And maybe they drop more turds than torps, but it keeps the little bastards busy. You find a grassy sand hummock and sit on it, watching them work, letting the adrenaline out of your system. God bless Hornet for giving you room, when you needed it. God bless her for saving your fucking life, just then.

And bless God for stopping her from loosing that arrow and getting everyone killed.

“That was the end of my fucking career,” you opine to empty space as you stare across the placid waters of the torpedo range.

“No,” a bright, youthful voice opines from behind your shoulder. “That was fucking AWESOME.”

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Did fap angel post and then delete it?

>>39081996
Hornet has been confirmed to be CV-8, you dense clucklefuckbadge. She never carried nukes, but she DID firebomb a populated city

>>39081996
It's either VT-8 or the Doolittle squadron, but I don't see why she would be ashamed of the Doolittle.

And if it's the VT-8, Kaga's criticism would be even more hurting.

>>39081933
Unnecessary now, I think.

>>39082023

Fixed the "double-post." For some fucking reason a paragraph or two got repeated in my own fucking writing document.

Spoilers: openoffice is literally a pile of shit

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>>39082014

>>39082026
Well yeah, but that city was an asshole anyway.

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>>39081885
I got you anon

>>39080704
So retarded, that I'm using that post
as rolling paper.

>>39082014
As for you, I am drawing your waifu. I'll have Mio done the next time your run SWQ.

>>39082005
Colorado wouldn't have been the ship the surrender of Japan treaty was signed on if it wasn't for McArthur being a cunt trying to score political points with Truman.

>>39082037
Get Word scrub

>>39082037
>Spoilers: openoffice is literally a pile of shit
Yes. Yes it is.

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>>39082026
No, she didn't. She BOMBED one but she didn't firebomb it. The Doolittle Raid has been seen as a bright spot in her career regardless.

Oh for fuck's sake IT'S VT-8. SHE'S ASHAMED TO HAVE HAD THEM ALL KILLED FOR FUCKING NOTHING, AND SHE DOESN'T WANT TO CALL ON THEM AGAIN IF SHE DOESN'T HAVE TO.

>>39082037
>not using libre

Enjoy your botnet.

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>>39082045
>As for you, I am drawing your waifu. I'll have Mio done the next time your run SWQ.

TO EVERYONE TYPING >WHEN JOKES: I'LL CUT YOU. STOP TYPING.

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>>39081898

>Deleting a story post

Planefag why

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>>39082014
People in the US military have done far worse than that, and had far longer, better careers.
This was a miserable pile of fuck, but it was still awesome as hell.

>>39081910
I thought the black arrow was representative of the Doolittle raid?

And I thought the firebombs combos used were later classified as WMDs?

>>39081935
Sorry, got ahead of myself.

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>>39082069

>>39082068
>when

>>39081996

>Not being ashamed of firebombing an inhabited city

At least HORNET'S not a psychopath. She can feel bad for what she did.

>>39082075
>And I thought the firebombs combos used were later classified as WMDs?
No.
Fuck no. That's fucking stupid. Firebombing is not and never has been a WMD

>>39082060
There was definitely some firebombing involved, but your reasoning for VT-8 is sound

>>39082060
omg, so does hornet's "little people" have stories to tell their descendants?

>>39082068
>where

>>39082068
> why

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>>39082088
INB4 NEXT TIME ON SHIPSLUTS

Also
>HOW

>>39082068
>who

>>39082060
VT-8? I don't remember the squadron designations for every bunch of aviators who fought in specific battles in WWII, but would VT-8 by any chance be the torpedo bombers who made a run for one of the Japanese carriers and got fucking wiped out to a man (but unintentionally cleared the way for the DIVE bombers to make their first strike completely unmolested)?

>>39082068
>TWO THREADS THIS WEEK GUYS
>next thread a week and a half later
Nobody was surprised.

>>39082068

>what

>>39082075
Keep in mind, first introduction of the arrow it was specifically stated that she never nocked it. It was heavily implied she never intended to.

>>39082138
Yeah, that would be them.

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>>39082098
She. Didn't. Fire. Bomb. Tokyo.

The. Doolittle. Raid. Did. Minimal. Damage. Other. Than. Morale. Damage.

>>39082102
Firebombing
>NOT A WMD.

Fucking Napalm and Vietnam
>FIREBOMBING HAS NEVER BEEN A Weapon of MASS DESTRUCTION.

>>39082138
Yep, that one. Also, they did have at least one Devastator driver get out of the kerfuffle alive.

>>39082148
I think that using it as a shipslut isn't the same count as using it as a ship

>>39082068
>If

>>39082162
No, they had a pilot get out alive. All planes were shot down.

>>39082138
To be fair though US naval aviation doctrine stated that torpedo bombers always went first unescorted because the torpedoes sucked

It was literally the shittiest job in the Navy

>>39082152
Yeah, I supposed being firebombed WOULD be pretty bad for morale.

>>39082138
>but would VT-8 by any chance be the torpedo bombers who made a run for one of the Japanese carriers and got fucking wiped out to a man

Yes.

>(but unintentionally cleared the way for the DIVE bombers to make their first strike completely unmolested)?

No. That's a meme the Navy came up with to make it seem like there was some sense to their sacrifice instead of them all dying for nothing.

>>39082165
Fair point, and I've kept that in mind too. It's still worth remembering, because it hasn't been mentioned in a thread since.

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NEXT TIME ON FUCKING SHIPSLUTS - TWO MORE GODDAMNED THREADS!

I'm stopping tonight so I've got a little more time to write out Things, because this fracas changes a few things. Sammy and Willie Dee will be first thing when we resume (most likely on Friday, unless I do SWQ Friday and Ships Saturday) we didn't get to them tonight because the CV thing hinged drastically on one or two choices! And we're stopping now because some people have fucking jobs, and they'll hate me to death if I keep going.

Next week is Spring Break though, and since I QUIT MY AWFUL FUCKING JOB, well, sorry working people, it's gonna be double-thread fucking heaven. It's all feast or famine with me, baby. Just call me El Nino or something I dunno

I'm not totally bushed yet tho so QUESTION TIME? QUESTION TIME. STUPID QUESTIONS WILL JUST GET REACTION IMAGES OUT OF ME THOUGH, SO PLEASE, MAKE AN EFFORT

>>39082156
Bad, but not a WMD.

WMDs specifically refer to radiological, biological, chemical, nuclear and the like.

>>39082176
Anon, that's what I said.
> at least one Devastator driver get out of the kerfuffle alive
"Driver" is slang for aviator/pilot.

But if you're talking about JUST the pilot, then carry on.

>>39082178
They weren't firebombs.

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>>39082178
Hahaha you sure got me good. Ebin ruse, bro.

>>39082192

Will we see Battleship X?

>>39082178
YOU STUPID FUCK.

DOOLITTLE.
WAS
NOT
A
FIREBOMBING
RAID

>>39082192
>Next week is Spring Break though, and since I QUIT MY AWFUL FUCKING JOB, well, sorry working people, it's gonna be double-thread fucking heaven. It's all feast or famine with me, baby. Just call me El Nino or something I dunno
Promise?

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>>39082192
What's the chance of seeing Her Majesty's battlewagons with us?

>>39082178
You're off by a couple of years, fag.

>>39082192
On a scale of one to Willie D, how badly did we fuck up this time?

>>39082192
Why is Hornet so shit at using her planes?

>>39082178
are you the same clueless namefag who could not grasp nukes?

if you are fuck off and stop posting

>>39082192
which kanmusu would you UNREP?

Oh, for fuck's sake people. Hornet didn't firebomb a city. That arrow represents a torpedo squadron that got fucking killed to a man during Midway, with their greatest contribution being an unintentional distraction for the dive bombers that showed up just as the last of them was killed (and before the defending Japanese fighters could get back in position to watch for high-altitude fighters).

Hornet doesn't want to use that arrow because the entire squadron it represents died USELESSLY.

>>39082192
How well/badly would you say we handled said fracas?

>>39082192
Do we really have no subordinates other than Hate and our own shipgirls? I feel like secondary input before some of these vote choices would help anon think more clearly.

Do you use the blood of the innocent or the tears of the damned for lubrication of vital moving parts and joints? If so, how much and how often?

>>39082224
Willie Dee was not as bad a fuckup as you think

>>39082192
Why is Settle so sure he's going to lose his career?

Instigating a fight (although, I wouldn't call it as such, since Zuikaku was pretty obviously going to tear a strip of Kagahide) is bad, yes. But not as much as decking, and threatening an admiral.

>>39082228
Well, one driver did survive that mess: George H. Gay, Jr.

>>39082198
Whoops. I read "diver", which made me think of the entire plane for some damn reason, despite Devastators not being diver bombers.

Yeah, guess it is getting pretty late.

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>>39082212

>Each aircraft carried four specially constructed 500-pound (225 kg) bombs. Three of these were high-explosive munitions and one was a bundle of incendiaries. The incendiaries were long tubes, wrapped together in order to be carried in the bomb bay, but designed to separate and scatter over a wide area after release.

They threw in a few for the hell of it, but no, it wasn't primarily a firebombing raid.

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>>39082192
You're great,Planefag. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

>>39082228
Ok, quoting myself for a correction here. The distraction part is now claimed to be Navy propaganda. They died for NOTHING.

>>39082192
Does everyone on the base speak English? Just wondering how the American and Japanese navy counterparts (verbally) understand each other.

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>>39082192
How much metal can we get out of Kaga?

I mean, if we're not going to scrap Naka, we have to get it from somewhere.

>>39082192
Have the japs figured out how to handle the ship/girl divide when it comes to the chain of command an this kind of shit, or is Goto watching Settle and taking notes from a safe distance?

>>39082192
What does the black arrow Hornet has represent?
If its the VT-8, can we talk to the "little people" in it?

>>39082258
Well, that's me told innit?

>>39082045
>more huge, oddly angled tits and sameface

Joy.

>>39082255
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>>39082225
Because Hornet's CAG commander was a dumbass

>>39082192
What does scrapping shipsluts involve in this quest?

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>>39082289
>CAG commander

>>39082192
>it's gonna be double-thread fucking heaven.
See you faggots for the next thread on the 21st.

>>39082278
hi dante

>>39082228
>unintentional distraction for the dive bombers that showed up just as the last of them was killed (and before the defending Japanese fighters could get back in position to watch for high-altitude fighters).

That did not happen. The Japanese CAP had already been strung out and distracted by chasing the constant air attacks all morning. VT-8 didn't do that on their own.

>>39082225
This was answered in the previous thread. Here you go!
>>39077860

Is there any reason why we seem to run into mostly bitchy shipgirls (not counting Kongou, Tenryuu, Akagi, or Naka and her sister)

>>39082278
Some artists make a living like that surprisingly enough.

>>39082192
Straya cunt?

we will never see australians outside of quests I write will we?

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>>39082192

Question A: What are the oldest ship spirits that have returned on our side?
Question 2: Has this old warrior appeared (pic related)?
Question III: Have any vessels of the minor naval powers arrived yet?

>>39082247
>Why is Settle so sure he's going to lose his career?

Did we read the same thread?

>>39082219

Actually, just about to do something about that.

You've had a long day at the office. You've had to negotiate various bureaucratic pitfalls from the gents back home who seem to think that the Pacific theatre can't be left to the Yanks and the Japs, and were thus aiming to replace you with some other trusted sod of their choosing. But that was a normal, everyday problem. You could deal with old men getting worked up about not being the rulers of the seas anymore. You've been doing so for the last two decades.

Your big problem today, was that there are five little maids standing in front of your desk.

Five little girls, dressed as Victorian-era maids. Each of them, standing to perfect attention, their dainty little hands giving you a prim and proper salute. The sound that their little shoes made as they brought their heels together was an almost perfect parade ground sound.

"I'm HMS Saumarez,"
"HMS Verulam, sir."
"HMS Venus."
"This is HMS Vigilant."
"HMS Virago."

Saumarez leaned closer to the desk as the others dropped their hands, "26th Destroyer Flotilla, at your service. We’re ready to give those fookin' abyssals what for. Sir."

Old Second World War ships coming back to life as actual, living breathing people, you could deal with. How much worse could it be than finding out that aliens existed when the Abyssals started infesting the seas? Them being young women and little girls, you could deal with. Most ships are treated as women anyway. Was it a big surprise when they came back as (rather nice looking) women?

But seeing young girls coming in dressed like that?

This was absolutely unacceptable. You've already had this discussion with so many of the others.

"Ladies. On this base, we have strict uniform regulations," you begin, letting your fingers roll over the papers on your desk disinterestedly, "Here in the Royal Navy, we have standards to uphold."

The Virago smirks as she breathes, "I told you he wouldn't go for it."

>>39082192
>QUESTION TIME?
Is there an actual chance at getting court martialed over this or is Settle just panicking over nothing?

>>39082228
Kinda-sorta. The long held stance that they 'brought the fighters down' is wrong, the zero could climb back to it's perch with time to spare.

What VT8 really did was screw up Nagumo's flight ops- all of a sudden, instead of spotting a strike, he had to recover CAP birds on low fuel or ammo, and launch a replacement CAP, which is what he was doing when the rest of the strike package hit him.

>>39082309
Who?

>>39082330

"I've already had to punish a few of your others for much the same mistakes. Those skirts are far too short to be proper, I won't have you looking like those French harlots. Below the knee is the minimum. Get them lengthened or untuck them. And make sure your aprons are crisp and white. I don't want to see blemishes whilst you’re on base. Understand?"

She actually has to restrain her jaw before it drops, though the other destroyers simply give you another salute.

"Good. Report to the dock at 1200 for your orders. You'll report to HMS Belfast. Dismissed."

After they file out of the room, you count to ten. Almost immediately after, you hear them talking about how refreshing it was to be serving again, whilst Virago sputters incoherently about how dumb these dresses were. Taking a moment to smile, you pick up the telephone and dial the direct line to one of the offices at the dock. The line picks up on the third ring.

"Belfast? Yes, this is Valentine. You have five more destroyers, seems to be the 26th Destroyer Flotilla. Yes, expect them at 1200. Make sure they get their uniform sorted out. Very good dear, carry on."

And with that, you went back to the very important business of trying to figure out which fucking forms needed to be filled out to get some decent equipment and supplies out here.

>>39082192
Is the black arrow VT-8 or a Nuclear Warhead?

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>>39082332
In normal circumstances, he might.

Though in normal circumstances Kaga would be shot.

So I'm guessing neither will happen. Which is a shame.

>>39082327
I would assume so, yes.

But my issue is (granted, I don't know much about military crimes) is instigating (for certain definitions of instigating) a fight really a career-ending thing for a decorated admiral? Bad, yes. Obviously. But is it really that serious?

>>39082309
I'm not him. While we don't always see eye to eye, he's got a point: I literally can't tell who is supposed to be who other than context.

>>39082319
tangfag wrote an Australian into EvaQuest for a thread or two, but then he never came back. Just like tang. rip

>>39082377
It's not a nuke.

>>39082330
>>39082374
This is extremely pleasing, Britfag anon.
You should continue at all costs.

Wait so we walked away from Kaga after the whole thing, I'm a bit confused after the Corgi stared down at Kaga

>>39082219

Breddy dang gud. If the Germans show up - guaranteed.

>>39082225

Mirrors her real-life performance at Midway. Green crew, green airgroup. Enterprise did a lot better. But all told, the US hadn't done much practice in launching unified strikes off multiple decks at all.

>>39082228

I'm tempted to weigh in on this and clarify by Word of God but the back and forth is way too funny.

>>39082229

You salvaged it really, really well, but turning around and getting angry was a big fucking mistake - but if you didn't realize that before, I'm sure you do now. The tensions were closer to the surface than you realized, weren't they?

However, those three choices that started this thread? This is how they would've panned out.

>Someone who's fucked up and very much doesn't want to die – too much to even find words, assuming you could even find the breath.

As you dangle there panicking, with Kaga shaking you, Hornet charges from behind and stabs Kaga with the black arrow, wounding her decently well. The other ships fucking dogpile you (LITERALLY, HURR HURR HURR) and break it up - but obviously it would be a SERIOUS goddamn consequence that'd bring worlds of shit down on your head.

>>39082377
CV-8 never carried nuclear weapons. CV-8 sank well before the trinity test even popped off.

the black arrow is not a nuclear device. it never was. it never will be.

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>>39082330
>>39082374
>V-class meidos
>Still not regulation meido skirts
Kekekeke

>>39082409
I, for one, second this opinion.
Good show Brit

>>39082396
Please?

>>39082424
So, how close is the Gov to giving up the goat and letting us start summoning shipgirls up the wazoo?

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>>39082424

>“I'm expendable. Like every man who's worn this uniform.”

You basically tell Kaga straight-up that you've accepted that you're likely to die in this job - which, after Settle's initial contact with abyssals, is true. (He obviously let it slip, but staring death in the face, that choice would mean he remembered damn quick.) You'd follow that with pointing out the silent mass of corgis, and telling her that they're expendable as well - and for that matter, even the CVs are. All of them - humanity doesn't strictly need shipgirls at all, to win the war against abyssals - it'd just cost immensely more human lives and financial resources, but it can be done. Then he'd jerk his thumb at the ocean and tell her that if she wants that, she may as well throw in with the abyssals, because the USN sunk her ass once, and they can do it again - really fucking fast, too.

That would've ended things, but not on the note they actually did - it would've been hostile, and cold, and it would've scared ALL the shipgirls, not just Kaga.

The option you ACTUALLY chose was the best one - deciding to appeal to her professionalism, her sense of duty and purpose as a soldier, and then - and ONLY then - bringing up the issue of what war she wants to fight; for humanity, or to fight her old, pointless, lost war all over again, for the pride of people long dead. Since THEY WERE EXPENDABLE got a lot of dual votes, I threw that in as the secondary - but as a cold statement of fact, not a smouldering go-ahead-and-fuck-with-me threat.

Anything but what you actually chose would've had severe repercussions that could only have been mended with bloodshed - most likely yours, somewhere down the line.

>>39082424
Since this is the Pacific Theater, is the RAN going to show up?

>>39082330
>>39082374

I love you, please continue.

>>39082374
Britfag, dazzle camouflage meidos soon?

>>39082424
>turning around and getting angry was a big fucking mistake
YOU FUCKING PEOPLE.

COULDN'T BE SMART, COULD YOU? COULDN'T JUST TAKE HORNET WITH YOU AND GET THE FUCK OUT.

YOU JUST HAD TO STOMP IN AND SLAP THE SHIPSLUTS WITH YOUR AUTHORITAH BONER.

>>39082440
it's an espresso machine

>>39082393
> evaquest

>>39082483
calm down dante

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>>39082483
Some people just want to see the world burn.

Best vote I ever cast.