Kantai Collection: A New Force For Good

A Practice Ends And A Mission Begins

"Yeah! I got Tatsuta!" Lexington cheered, watching as her bombers covered the light cruiser in blue paint. Enterprise only rolled her eyes as she put up another squadron of fighters, the arrow taking almost no time to split into the planes.

"Yeah, that's great and all Lex, but we just lost Cabot and Chicago!" Saratoga yelled as she pointed to the retreating ship girls, Cabot's planes vectoring off to land with their carrier.

"Oh yeah.... Are we working on getting Yamato out!?" Lex asked as she moved out of the way of another salvo, a shell just barely missing her Flightdeck. Arizona gave a nod as she sent out her own Salvo towards the distant Japanese battleships, watching as the arcing shells fell among the girls.

"Hey! I don't mean to put a dampener on things, but we're one short compared to them!" San Diego yelled. Coral Sea only laughed in response as she put up another squadron of fighters, her mirth evident as she watched her pilots chase down a squadron of Zeroes, covering the white planes in dark blue.

"That just makes things more fun!" Coral declared, watching as her squadron went after another wing of Zeroes. As they did so, a wing of Zeroes armed with a payload of bombs made their way towards the carrier, their intent clear. Coral only watched the bombers with a clear expression of amusement, gazing at them as they neared her. But her fun was interrupted the bombers were struck by a squadron of Wildcats, their white paint scorned by the blue paint as well. Scowling, Coral gave a pout of the lips as Enterprise looked to the carrier. "Quit ruining my fun, ya buzzkill!" Coral yelled, shaking her fist at CV-6. Enterprise only glared at the carrier.

"Coral Sea! You can't be so carefree in the middle of a sortie! If you do, you will get sunk or someone else will pay for-"

The carrier was cut off as a shell impacted her in the back of her head, plastering the silver hair she was so proud of to her back in the red paint those of the Japanese were so fond of. Giving an irritated sigh, Enterprise glared at Coral as the Midway class howled with laughter, doubling over as she clutched her stomach as her laughter sounded off. Forrest and Fitch joined the carrier in laughter as Lexington looked to Enterprise.

"Hey.... E... You've got a little something...." Lex laughed but E only shook her head, grumbling to herself as she began to head back to Yokosuka, only prompting more laughter from the giggling trio.

"Make that two short!" Saratoga yelled as she and Midway fell back a ways, trying to put some more distance between them and the three Japanese battleships. In doing so, the two carriers exposed them self to the approaching right flank attack by the Japanese, Tenryuu and her destroyers charging directly at the two, taking no time to start firing shells their way. But they found themselves having problems as San Francisco, San Deigo, and the two remaining American destroyers put themselves in the way.

San Diego didn't hesitate a fraction of a second before her guns began opening up, throwing plenty of shells to keep the approaching girls on their toes. San Francisco followed her example, the heavy cruiser's nine eight inch guns joining the fray, giving up plenty of their own ammunition.

The two destroyers got in on the action too, their combined firepower of the two's eight five inch guns throwing shells at their Japanese counterparts, causing only further chaos as the four attempted to protect the two carriers.

Eventually, the four were met with luck as one of San Francisco's shells exploded across the entirety of Tenryuu's face, blinding the light cruiser with layer of blue paint, a fact that met the end of her run.

Wiping the paint from her eyes, Tenryuu turned back towards Yokosuka, much to the chagrin of her three accompanying destroyers. Still on the charge, the three Japanese destroyers kept up the attack as they tangled with the four American ship girls.