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

Slithering eels

“Would you look at that. Finally here.” Elma said as Soyuz dragged Tirpitz with her. And dragging was meant literally. Soyuz had picked her up earlier and was now holding Tirpitz arms as she walked to the group. Before they did so they contacted the others of the Northern Parliament and Soyuz, with Elmas help, gathered the rest of the Ironblood part of the sortie previously. 

Elma didn’t follow Soyuz on gathering Tirpitz though. She remained at the dock with the other waiting people since Soyuz ordered her to do so. She was going to be able to do it alone anyway. She got the locations from Elma beforehand and was able to find the girl after a good ten minutes.

She came back with Tirpitz, who was the last missing person then since all the others already arrived, after some time. Soyuz looked mentally exhausted already but hid it. Tirpitz looked more annoyed and made no attempts to hide it as she groaned all the way. Elma heard them approaching from miles away.

“Why do we need to do this?” Tirpitz whined as she got dragged towards the group. “We just came home and tried to relax.”

“You rested enough. Now obey your orders and shake those bones.” Soyuz said and set her up straight. Elma was partially amazed by the fact that Soyuz seemed more annoyed than she ever did interacting with her.

Tirpitz sat back down. She looked up at Soyuz with eyes that showed no fire in them. “But I don’t want to. We just came home from months of doing sorties and I was just cleaning for several hours.”

“And we never relaxed at all and still look better than you.” Soyuz put her foot down. “And since you already did some stuff in the park you do have an advantage. You don’t need to stretch and get ready.”

“Damm who got her riled up like that.” Rossiya said to her comrades. They all could not answer and even Elma could only shrug. Whatever must have happened must be annoying even Soyuz.

“Excuse me Soyuz.” Z46 got the attention of the room. She looked at the Northern Parliament commander. “What is the plan for what you called us? You said we are doing a sortie?”

“Yes we are.” Elma said before Soyuz did. She walked up to the Destroyer and looked at her. Gauging her abilities the Destroyer didn’t look that skillful. “According to your commander Hood, this is just a friendship training with both factions. She apparently rolled the dice and got you all to join since we all were by default.”

“Oh interesting.” Z26 said and walked up to Elma. “Maybe we can do more than just cruising around for a patrol. And who is in command actually. Tirpitz?”

“That would be me. The orders we have are that we are doing a test of all our capabilities in practice.” Soyuz elaborated as she got the attention back. She also innerly shuddered at thinking that Tirpitz was in any form to command anything. “So we will be driving towards open seas and use a few production ships as targets for you all. Hood has given us a number that should be enough.”

“The commander is quite generous.” Tirpitz snickered. “Giving us targets that can’t shoot back. At least we don’t get hurt doing this.”

“I can make them do so. It all needs a simple few tricks.” Elma smiled and Soyuz grabbed her shoulder as a sign to not continue. Ironblood used Siren technology so Elma obviously could access that. Soyuz didn’t want that to happen or else Elma would be discovered.

“Wait what? We deactivated the firing mechanism in the ships. They can’t fire without anyone breaking a Helena grade level lock.” Z46 mentioned. What for them was an impossible lock was an easy to open slide lock for Elma and sheer nothingness for the Observer that was walking around on the base somewhere. Elma might have accidentally said more than she should though but she was correct.