Azur Lane: Story of the Blind Battleship Rewritten

Chapter 22: Evolution

Implacable, Richelieu, the other ship girls, and the massive amount of the production fleet was chasing down the battleship.

Richelieu and Jean Bart rushed up ahead, keeping chase. "He's going hella fast! At least 40 knots!" Jean Bart yelled back to the other girls.

Argus looked over and said "Should we launch bombers?" Implacable looked back ahead and said "Yes, launch to disable. Don't sink his ship."

Swordfish and Blackburn bombers rapidly took off towards the black Siren battleship. Implacable watched as 2 dual catapults extended outwards and rapidly launched Siren jets forward.

The jets pulled a post stall maneuver and arched back towards the Azur Lane aircraft. Their maneuvers were slow, sluggish, showing no sign of skill.

The torpedo bombers eventually aligned and launched their payloads, which struck the battleship.  The heavy damage caused it to list on its side and slow down to 7 knots, enough for the ship girls to jump on board.

The girls rapidly maneuvered to the bridge and kicked the door open. They entered the room and in a semi-circle, pointed their weapons at the figure in the room.

Pale skin, a black naval trench coat stained with yellow blood. The figure continued staring at the camera feeds.

"Arka... Orochi, we have you surrounded." Richelieu stated. The said ship only looked back and smiled.

"Objective 2, Complete. Distraction complete. Turning off hardlight projection." A voice through speakers said.

The girls looked around shocked as the ship started breaking apart, they fell through the floor and onto the water. The ship eventually disappeared and in its place was a Siren bomber with multiple projectors across it.

It went full afterburner and headed back towards the entrance. As Implacable watched it fly off, she had a sudden realization. "WE NEED TO GET BACK TO THE FLEET. NOW!"

As the girls rushed back, the production ships started getting cut off by interference and jamming. The Mirror Sea itself was starting to respond to new command codes.

As the Royal and Iris girls left the Mirror Sea, they saw carnage. The entire fleet they left behind was utterly devastated in all sense of the word.

Burning wrecks was all that was left behind, the smell of oil everywhere. Royal Oak looked around and asked the one question on everyone's mind.

"Where is he?"

A lone ship prowled through the waters in the Mirror Sea, more and more resources becoming available to it. It's black hull shifting through the aging remains of previous battles fought here.

The ship eventually came alongside a tower and docked. Arkansas jumped off the ship, unable to summon rigging, an adverse side effect he soon would rectify.

Behind a set of barriers was a Horseman, one of Conquest. It wore shiny armor and a bow. Arkansas looked at the figure and said "Directive 2745, you are ordered to stand down and take me to the nearest Combat Information Computing Node."

The horseman only stared and through a low menacing voice said "Request denied."

"If you will not surrender the necessary data, I will take it from you." Arkansas simply said.

The barriers came down and arrow from the horseman immediately flew towards Arkansas with nothing in its way....

Except for a red triangle barrier popping up and deflecting the arrow. If rigging cannot be summoned, make necessary modifications to mechanical parts to be weapons, or in this case, defense.