New Ship, New Era

Battle for Guam

Truk Naval Base

Six orange F/A-18E's streaked across the sky, loaded with both air to air and air to ground ordinance. The ordinance were just dummy bombs, but they still packed a punch when they hit.

"Watch out for those bombs, Fubuki!" Nimitz shouted. He was standing on the shore, bow in hand watching Fubuki try with all her might to shoot down the supersonic fighters. It was amazing how she had the agility to dodge the falling bombs as they were traveling very fast.

"I'm watching them Nimitz! They're just moving so...!" Just before finishing that sentence she downed one of the Hornets. "fast? I got one! Did you see that Nimitz?!" She said, smiling.

"Yeah, but...." He replied, followed by the sound of his CWIS firing, then a flaming Hornet barely missing Fubuki. "Pay attention." He said. Fubuki nodded and resumed firing at the orange fighter-bombers. Nimitz watched in awe as she now making the dummy bombs miss without even trying, as well as dodging the strafing runs. While Fubuki was, at this point, dodging everything while trying to find an opening to fire, a few of the Destroyers came by to see where all the noise was coming from.

"Nimitz-kun, one of your planes flew over our barrack-poi. Could you try to keep them out to sea, please?" Yuudachi asked. Nimitz turned to face them and nodded. The other destroyers noticed Fubuki out on the water, shooting at some of his target jets. "Is that Fubuki-chan?" Kitikami asked.

"Yep, ever since the battle last week, she has asked me to train her in shooting down my type of aircraft, now that the abyssals have them. Speaking of which, you girls need to train as well." Nimitz said. The destroyers looked at Fubuki, working her hardest to try and shoot the jets out the sky. Then the sound of a hornet blowing up and hitting the water filled the air for a moment. Nimitz turned around and applauded the destroyer.

"Well done, Fubuki! Well done." Nimitz said. He called back the remaining 3 hornets in the air, which returned to the carrier, landing on his deck shield. Fubuki sailed off to the docks, and Nimitz turned back to see the other destroyers had left.

"Huh...guess I'll launch a Hawkeye to scout out." Jay said aloud. He pulled out the screw-finned arrow and launched it. He then watched it climb away and took a seat on a patch of grass with his CIC glasses on. Hmmm.... there's an abyssal fleet about 200 miles to the south, heading away....a small force up north...

"Hey Nimitz!" Nimitz jerked his head to where the voice came from. His heart was pounding, and he had to catch his breath a bit before answering.

"Jesus Christ, Akagi, you really shouldn't do that." He replied, lifting his glasses to reveal Akagi standing there with a smile on her face. "It's good to see you though."

"So, what are you doing?" She asked. Nimitz just laid back down onto the grass and gestured her to sit next to him.

"I'm just monitoring some of the Abyssals I can see on radar." Nimitz said. Akagi was confused. How can he monitor them? She thought. "Probably confusing, but these glasses I have are able to connect with my Hawkeye and its ability to track any Abyssal within 250 miles." He said.

"That's pretty cool! You can see them before they even think about attacking a base or basses with that range!" Akagi exclaimed. Nimitz nodded, then called back his Hawkeye.

"Akagi can I ask you something?" Nimitz asked. She nodded. "I've been wondering, have you or any other of the carriers gotten even the slightest bit jealous of my abilities?"

"What? No! At least not me. I can't say too much for my sister though." She says.

"Well, I wouldn't be surprised if she is." Nimitz said, smiling. He turned to see Shiloh and Cole walking toward him. He got up to greet the two.