Azur Lane: Story of the Blind Battleship

Chapter 9: Implications

Warspite was staring up at Arkansas who looked crazed. The barrels on his remaining guns were rapidly charging up to fire at the small battleship.

That is until he was hit in his side by an arrow from Enterprise. This caught Arkansas' attention, which he snapped back and faced towards Enterprise's direction.

Enterprise: What have you done to Arkansas?!?

Arkansas continues staring, his ears and head twitching uncontrollably, before getting an evil grin and answering.

Arkansas?: I... am..... Arkansas...

All the ships shuddered at his statement, made in a tone they had never heard before. Arkansas continued smiling and looked towards the carriers with a smile.

Three flaming cards then appeared in Arkansas' right hand. He threw this cards towards the carriers. Enterprise and the other carriers assumed these were some sort of special attack, but were surprised when all three cards flashed and turned into three Curtiss SC-1 Seahawks.

Enterprise remembered Arkansas talking about how he had catapult launched sea planes, but never saw him actually use them.

Arkansas jumped back and continued firing his remaining guns randomly and he left his planes to deal with the carriers.

Enterprise and others used AA guns to try to shoot down the sea planes, but they too were surrounded in hot plasma like Arkansas' main weapons. This plasma was melting any incoming AA rounds before they even touched the aircraft.

Enterprise drew back on her bow and fired an arrow into one of the Seahawks, it exploded in a magnificent red flash and disappeared. The other 2 Seahawks caught on to this and their maneuvers started becoming more erratic.

Warspite was currently fighting Arkansas as he weaved and dodged incoming shots, returning rounds in kind. She looked beyond her and saw the fleet having trouble with his floatplanes. Warspite wondered how he was able to multi task fighting and controlling the planes at the same time. A thought she was broken out of by another round of plasma surrounded shells flying past her.

Enterprise fired another arrow at the 2nd Seahawk, but it pulled a sudden maneuver and the arrow skimmed by it by about a foot. The Seahawk then arched towards Enterprise and was moving at a fast speed. Past the safe altitude of pull up, Enterprise realized what the aircraft was doing and jumped out of the way. The Seahawk barreled into the water and crashed. The final Seahawk was making an aggressive turn and went in to do the same, this time guns blazing. Zuikaku hurried and deflected the bullets, jumping to the left as the last floatplane made its plunge into the sea.

The carriers turned back their attention to Arkansas himself, who was still fighting Warspite. Arkansas did a quick look in their direction, knowing his aircraft had been destroyed. Smiling, he aimed his turret to the left at the carriers, and kept the other turret focused on Warspite.

The carriers were dodging incoming plasma fire from the second turret. Arkansas knowing his armaments were limited opted to pull out his 5 inch secondary pistol he had on his waist. He fired this at Warspite as well.

Enterprise took a deep breath and pulled back her bow, aiming directly down the barrel of the turret. She released the energy bolt and it traveled down the barrel, setting off the round within and causing the whole turret to blow up. Arkansas' shifted his attention away from Warspite, which she took advantage of and fired a round into the last remaining 12 inch turret. Arkansas then kept firing with his last gun, the 5 inch pistol.

After some time of dodging, deflecting, or ignoring the 5 inch rounds. The gun clicked, signifying it had no ammo left.

Click. Click. Click. Click.