After one day and 20 hours of sailing, and Wisconsin rambling about the chances of blowing up even more Chinese installations, the fleet of Eagle Union ships finally arrived into the waters of Nagasaki Prefecture, Kyushu Island, Japan. Due to being the largest, United States' ship was quite the eye opener for Japanese seeing these Eagle Union warships as hers was a former passenger liner. For Tan Yang and Hibiki, this was a bit of a homecoming as they were former Japanese KAN-SEN during the days of the former Sakura Empire but for the previous now living in Taiwan, there was also a bit of sadness coming back. This was the prefecture her friend Shigure lived in before her passing in 1965.
SuperCat 4: Wow. I never thought I'd come here, never in a million years.
Hibiki: Home. Can't believe how much Japan has changed.
An Shan and Tai Yuan: (Looking on at the surroundings of Nagasaki and Sasebo)
Tan Yang: (Sheds a tear from her eye)
Carmania: (Notices this) Something wrong, Miss Tan Yang?
Tan Yang: Just some dust in my eyes, that's all.
US: We should be arriving at Sasebo Naval Base shortly, ladies. I suggest making sure that you have all your belongs with you as this will be our final stop.
AB: You sound like a cruise ship captain, United States.
US: I was a former ocean liner, not a cruise ship.
AB: Then why did you do it?
US: For laughs with the readers.
JPJ: What?
US: Never mind. Can't wait to drop off my cargo I've been dragging around me. Hopefully I can finally head straight into battle once again.
As they rounded into US Naval Base Sasebo, you didn't need to be a KAN-SEN to figure that something was going on. Just like RIMPAC nearly a few months prior, it was a true gathering of nations once again as ships from the Fusou Marine Self-Defense Force, Eagle Union, Royal Navy were planning something huge alongside smaller nation navies like Maple Monarchy from the Dominion of Canada, Iron Federation or "Eisenföderation" from Germany, Iris Orthodoxy from France, some of the Dragon Empery from Taiwan and even the Royal Australian Navy.
Tan Yang: Looks like an attack fleet.
Wisconsin: More like an invasion force. With China being softened up by our allies in Korea, we've got this in the bag, girls.
Carmania: You know, what are yous going to do once this war is over? I'm going to return home to Portsmouth and maybe built two more models to my collection.
An Shan: Any ships in mind, Carmania?
Carmania: I was thinking maybe United States' ship when it was an ocean liner, along with her colleague SS America. I was told they were the "Freedom Trouble Sisters" despite not being real sisters.
An Shan: Well... what do you think, Tai Yuan? Should we stay in China, or seek a new home?
Tai Yuan: I'd like to live in the US. We lived in China our whole lives when the Soviet Union sold us to them, so I feel it's time for a change.
An Shan: I agree with you. I feel it's time to live somewhere else for a change.
Tan Yang: I'll be going home to Taiwan once this is all over, and restart my cosplaying niche.
SuperCat 4: That's nice. Your cosplays are still great, even if you're trying to hide your ears.
Tan Yang: Thank you, SuperCat 4. I feel honoured hearing that from one of Sydney's ferrygirls.
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Out Of Many, Always Be One: Voyage Of The United States
FanficOriginally a rusted relic from a glorious age of American post-war prosperity and the crowning jewel of the nation, the former liner SS United States is taken and commissioned into Eagle Union as an Attack Transport and with the onset of what could...
