Commander's Rounds

Entry 79: The Witching hour

Inside of Yuubari's lab, the fox had managed to acquire an assistant. There were a great many projects that needed to be accomplished, and Yuubari needed someone especially capable- someone who even had some understanding of Siren technology. So, she managed to find a guest who had free time and a head full of untapped knowledge just for the occasion.

Purifier was sitting oddly still, smiling gleefully as Yuubari had plugged multiple cables into the Siren's head nodes, while the fox carefully examined this sterling example of higher-level Siren programming. Purifier looked over at Yuubari. "So, the Anomaly knocked up his woman, huh?"

Yuubari nodded, and tapped a few keys to zoom in on a particularly interesting part of Purifier's internal makeup. "That seems to be the case."

Purifier grinned. "Hah! Bet he's just gonna love it when she gets even bigger tiddies than she's already got! I bet you're real happy about it too."

Yuubari nodded. "As much as we all look after each other, we do have hopes for master's happiness as well."

Purifier's smile grew uncomfortably wide. "Come on, I bet a nerd like you is thinking all kinds of things about the possibilities of their little crotch spawn."

Yuubari did pause for a moment, and responded. "Perhaps. However, I don't know what to buy for a baby, plus I must be prepared for the possibility that I might have my ears or tail grabbed the first time I meet their little girl."

Purifier pouted, as though she wasn't getting anything that she wanted. "Really? That's it?"

The fox looked up from her screen at Purifier. "May I ask what's on your mind?"

The Siren sat back. "I was just thinking that a human-Kansen hybrid might arouse your scientific curiosity. I mean, it's a new thing that you'd want to examine as thoroughly as possible in all kinds of science-y ways, correct?"

Yuubari stopped typing. "I have no plans for running experiments on master's child. I will help raise and teach her if asked, but she is not a valid subject of inquiry." She blinked. "...Are you asking me this because you know someone who would?"

Purifier giggled. "Of course I do! And everyone in this room probably knows who I'm talking about. This isn't exactly the million-dollar question."

Yuubari paused a bit, and then began typing, this time more aggressively. "...I would like to execute your plan."

"See! I knew you'd come around!"

Yuubari looked away from her screen over to where Marblehead and Akashi were tinkering. "How are things going with you?"

Akashi withdrew all of her tools into her sleeves for a moment. "No matter how crazy it seems, there's nothing Akashi can't make work, nya! Given enough time, and especially money, that is."

Marblehead wiped some sweat off her brow as she closed the maintenance panel to the booster they were building. "It seemed like she was way out of her mind when she explained it to us, but once we did the math, it seemed feasible. If the tests pan out, Incomparable may just be the world's first supersonic battlecruiser. Don't know why we'd need one, though."

Akashi giggled. "Nothing wrong with giving the commander more options, nya?"

Yuubari stopped typing. "Speaking of which, one of you should inform the commander that August Von Parzeval is ready for the fleet?"

Akashi snickered. "Sure thing! Doesn't mean he's ready for her though, nya."

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The commander received the report. August Von Parzeval was ready to go, and, as was always the case, her abilities were going to be needed. Considering the heavy counter-punch they were going to have to deliver against the Sirens the next time they took to the field, an extra capital ship wasn't going to be amiss. However, he also braced himself, knowing that the ships that came out of Akashi and Yuubari's lab tended to have their own quirks, often in excess of those found on regular shipgirls.