A New Fight

Meeting A Queen

Chapter 3

"What is a ship girl? This is a question that scientists and philosophers are trying to figure out..." I started before I was interrupted by a student.

"that's an easy question, there weapons" says the student, it is that stuck up noble brat Samson *static*

"Why don't you come down here and teach the class yourself" I said, he was not impressive, in fact, I think he was dumped on my lap because everyone could not cope with him, so I got the short straw, only if his dad was not the leader of high command

"There's not much to be said about them, they were created by humans to serve humans, any way possible and those fox bitch's, there are some nice fine specimens" he says, and you hear a couple of wolf whistles from the boys around him.

"If Akagi and Kaga hear you saying that, well, you would not be in one piece" I say with a smile. "How many of you have seen a ship girl in real life, raise your hand if you have" I asked the class as I raised my hand no one else raised their hand. Not even Sampson.
"Well, you a fucking liar, Athena, If I haven't seen one. Why would a third-rate professor like you have seen one" yells Sampson from the back of the class?

"Maybe it's because I don't have my head in my ass, unlike you" I reply "No seriously, I'm part of a group that are trying to figure them out, so I get to work alongside them, take notes on the battlefield, study their social order, and so forth." I said as I stepped back to think. "I know, I'll be right back, take your books out and study the extract from the darkest hour, and try and figure out why it's one of the best speeches" I said as I stepped out of the lecture theatre, I picked up my phone to make a call. I open my contacts and select *blurred out name*

"Hay Athena, what can I do for you" says a female voice

"Hi *static*, I don't suppose I could borrow one of the girls for a lecture" I asked

"Oh, I have just the girl for you, I'll send her over" says the girl

"Are you sure your commander will be fine with that, *static*" I asked the girl

"Yeah, she's just sitting in port while her hull is under repair" says the girl.

"Ok, if you say so, bye" I said

"bye" she said as I hung up. I walked back to the front of the lecture theatre.

"Right class, what have we found out about the speech" I asked the class

--- small time skip---

I was just about to break down the evacuation of Dunkirk, to explain how the Germans could have succeeded in wiping out our troops. But I was cut off by a knock on the door. "Right class, and Sampson" this made the class laugh. "I have a treat for you" I say as I jester to the door, "come in" I yelled, the door opens to reveal enterprise "So your who she sent" I said as I chuckled to myself, enterprise marches down the stairs "class meet the eagle union, best aircraft carrier, and arguably, best warship on the ocean. second ship of the Yorktown class aircraft carrier, enterprise" I said as the class claps followed by a few whistles. "Thank you for coming friend" I said as she reaches the bottom of the lecture theatre

"No problem, Athena" she said as she held out her hand, and I shook it.

---memory ends---

I open my eyes to see the port. I don't know how long I was out and how I'm still upright. I turned around to check the clock to see that I only lost about 30 seconds. I walked carefully to the deck; I saw a tugboat of the bow pulling the ship. The water next to the ship starts to ripple, you are about to let the tugboat crew know that there is something in the water. Before you can even start a sub pops up next to the ship and a little girl climbs out of the hatch and stands on top of the sub. "Ahh, fresh air at last" says the girl on the sub. She doesn't seem dangerous.

"Hello, who are you" I asked this girl

"Oh hay." She says in a bit of shock "You must be the destroyer that blew everything up, good show matey, and queeny probably want to speak to you. She is very posh-posh" says a girl that's standing on top of a sub, trying to be as pirate as possible. In a pirate dress but before you can say anything she goes in the hatch and disappears below the waves again. It seems like this is gonna be fun.

The tugboat pulls the ship to the dock. I lent over the side to say thank you. Only to see the tugboat deteriorate into blue cubes and then form around a girl that is where the boat was. She looked back at you and waved, then skated off to help others that are on the water. This is too weird. 'Hang on, what if this is normal and I just don't remember, yeah that got to be it' I thought as I walked back to the main guns on the ship.

I grabbed the maintenance tool box That I grabbed from the engine room while I was repairing the ship the first time around. As I walked over to the second and slightly raised turret I can hear the waves crash against the hull, a giant contrast to the battle that just played out. As I turned around to take one last look at my surroundings before I started myself in the repair. I can see little children running around the port grounds without a care in the world, it would be nice to do that. But I have to find out who I am. And now a war to end.
After I have taken in my surroundings. I turn back to the turret and take off the side panel to the turret to take a look inside. It's a total mess. There are snapped chains everywhere, bits of broken gears litter the floor and even you can see a shell casing that has somehow got logged in here. I started by removing the shell casing first, I pulled on the casing until it came out gently. But the moment it's free all the gears fall out. This is going to be a long day.
You hear some footsteps walking around. 'they're probably on the dock' I thought to myself as I pulled out a snapped chain. Some of the gears fell out barely missing my toes. 'I have to watch my toe's while doing this, and concentrate' I thought as I moved some of the fallen parts.
"You don't need to do any self-maintenance; we have people to do that for us." The blonde lady says, she sounds very stuck up and posh. She is closely followed by two girls with what appears to be ship turrets on their back. This must be someone important, let's have some fun.

"You must be the one the girl in the sub called 'queenie'" I say to annoy her. But a gear falls and hits your toe, karma at its best "feck" I said as I push it off surprisingly it doesn't hurt for long.

"Watch your mouth around the queen," one of the two escorts said. She must be highly respected.

"No hood, it perfectly fine I am battleship HMS Queen Elizabeth, this is battleship HMS Hood and HMS King George V" the two escorts bow slightly as their name is called out "What is your name dear" the queen asked me

"Well, that difficult to say, I mean at this moment in time I'm assuming the identity of the caption of this ship Athena, before you ask, I did not kill her, I found this ship abandoned by pure luck, but I have no memory before walking up on the island" I said as I put the completed gears back in place by using a blueprint, I found in the maintenance room. I picked up the tool boxes and headed to the maintenance room to pick up some spare gears. "If you want to keep talking, let's walk and talk" HMS HOOD shoots me a glare "your majesty" the queen smiles as she follows me through corridors. Some have holes in the floor that you have to jump over, in some areas you have to crouch under wreckage that is in the hallways.
I turn to the maintenance room and walk in. look on the selves they have all got boxes on them that are labelled with various parts of the ship. I walked up an aisle; engine... No, coffee machine... why? The coffee machine never breaks, there we go, turret spare parts. I pick up the box and then turn around and head out the room. It is an awkward silence as I walk back to the turret that I have been partly dismantling and I started to put the new parts in. When everything has been assembled to the blueprint specification. I looked at the display. It turns from red to white then white to green in a couple of seconds as I hear the gun self-load "there we go, one more bit fixed on you girl, hay" I whisper under your breath as I rested my hand on the side of the turret.

"Your majesty, is this the destroyer that blew up the bulk of the sirens?" I turned around to see a short. Why does that voice sound familiar?

"Yes commander, although it is hard to believe she was fighting in this wreck, and it looked like this before it got hit, and she says she controls the ship by herself, but she doesn't know if she is a ship girl". She nods In my direction, the commander gives me a hard stare, I just smile and wave at him.

"We need to talk" the commander says to me as he walks away, 'am I supposed to follow, well I guess' if I decide to follow him. How am I going to explain this to the man in charge without being killed for being a spy?