Right.....Wrong.....I don't know

The paid price

Andrea and John were barely holding their breaths as were most others in the room. Their death literally stood in their room and aimed yet by fate a monster came between that. The two leaders however couldn’t decide what was worse, seeing their kind torn to shreds by high caliber shells or hearing what the siren did to the battleship.

The siren grabbed the ship and after a quick fist to the stomach threw the shipgirl out of the room. The siren left without even looking at the humans down the hallway and went after the battleship. The humans didn’t know what the siren did but one thing was sure, they knew what a beatdown sounded like……….but what the siren did was more…….much……..more….brutal.

Even with closed eyes and ears they could hear the breaking steel and screams of pain that almost let them feel pity for the battleship. They all held their eyes and ears shut upon hearing that all, no one dared to look. 

They stayed in that room long after the sounds of battle ceased. They began to tend to their wounds that while numerous weren’t that lethal. They could only thank the heavens that the ships disregarded aiming and instead fired high explosive shrapnels. That hurt no doubt but was still tendable, unlike an armor piercing round to the stomach.

The leaders of the group made sure everyone was ok before even daring to venture outside. A small armed squad accompanied the two. They knew they were hopeless should a shipgirl see them but even a 1% chance was better than nothing. 

Walking out they saw only destruction and fire. Almost everything was broken down and a few bodies littered the floor. The group passed them and looked around. They of course checked them and found that many were actually just knocked out. Relieved by that they dragged them to a safe place, a few stayed and took care of the injured while the rest of the group walked through the empty village. 

“It’s quiet.” Said one of the humans. “You think those godless monsters ditched us here and the shipgirls are just hiding.”

“No they didn’t!” Said Andrea angrily. “They must have engaged them and won, or they are fighting somewhere else.”

Andrea was angry….but had a hard time to disagree. Sirens attacked shipgirl and human alike, even if in small numbers and the preferable target being Azur Lane itself. The two Andrea knew would no doubt engage the shipgirls but at the same time she knew that sirens often run away when damaged, at least when she could trust the files she got from the military network.

“You have too little trust, man.” Said John and checked his rifles ammunition. “They are still here and saving us.”

“You got way too much hope.” Exhaled the one guy who doubted their ‘allies’. “That’s why you are our leader, a little bit of hope in a dying world.”

“And what if they joined the ship's side?” Asked one member of the group that made everyone abruptly stop. That was their absolute worst case scenario situation that they desperately wanted to avoid. ”What? It is a possibility.”

“Can you not talk about that idea?” Said one teenager while he was shaking. “Those things can beat shipgirls with ease,surviving those will be even less possible than it already is. They already look more like horror beasts than normal shipgirls.”

“Well they are aliens after all.” Said an older person. “Came from the sky and sea where they launched a great attack on us, you know the history. The shipgirls were our saviour from them but that was a long time ago, what went wrong.”

The group exhaled, all of them had seen the shipgirls as heroes and idols but now they had become their worst nightmare. They replaced the evil they knew, the sirens. Sirens attacked but never actively focussed on attacking humans often. The shipgirls now attack without morals and slaughter everyone they find. while actively searching for them. The saviours became the monsters and there was no way for the humans to win.