Kantai Collection: A New Force For Good

A Dragon's Escort

A/N: The important Author's Note is at the end of this chapter for once!

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"Well, I would say that about covers it." The voice offered in supply. Jersey couldn't help but nod as she glanced off in the distance somewhat, already able to make out the different figures of those she'd known a lifetime ago. Called forth for her sake, Jersey knew that she should be grateful.

And she was.

"You really know how to make a girl feel special." Jersey said as she watched the distant gathering of figures, watching as a few of them would glance in her general direction. As she did so, her hand never left Johnny's, the destroyer's firmly locked into Jersey's hold. The voice laughed somewhat, clearly now a woman's voice speaking to her.

"I try J, I really do." The voice said in return as the same tell tale ocean breeze blew by, whipping Jersey's hair around. The battleship laughed somewhat at the happening before both she and Johnny noted Momi stepping up to the two again, Momi ruffling Johnny's hair a moment before taking her cover off of her head and planting it on Johnny's head.

"Momi?" Johnny asked as she reached up to touch the cover, almost as if she didn't think it was actually there. Momi smirked as she pulled the cigar from her lips, letting out another breath of coal filled smoke.

"Keep it safe for me kiddo. Maybe there'll come a day when I can get it back from ya." She said, the Titan of a woman crouching down to the girl. Johnny blinked a moment before practically throwing herself at the woman, wrapping her arms around the woman in a hug. Momi, Being Momi, didn't even budge in the slightest. She just hugged the destroyer back, wrapping her arms around Johnny a moment before releasing the girl, once again standing to her full height as she looked to J. "They're waiting for you two. Best not keep em waiting. I don't know about all of em, but Vestal will beat your ass if you keep her any longer." She said.

Jersey offered a nod as she looked to Johnny a moment, the destroyer looking up at her from under Momi's cover a moment before the two began to make their way over the water's surface towards the assembled group in the distance. Momi watched them go, watching as Johnny held her other hand to her head as she glanced back to Momi a moment before fully committing to Jersey, looking ahead at the distant group. Momi watched them go a moment longer as she pulled her cigar from her lips.

"Quite the doting mother, aren't you?" The voice asked in an amused fashion. Momi scowled somewhat as she let forth another breath of smoke through her nose and lips a moment before glancing at the horizon.

"I don't need that from you." She said. "I'm largely just concerned about the Americans. But you, you offer the same way about you to the rest of the flags. British, Russian, French. That's the pot calling the kettle black if I've ever seen it." Momi offered. The voice snickered, the breeze starting up again as she did so.

"I care for who I can-"

"Which is a lot of fucking caring at the end of the day." Momi snapped. "One of these days, you're gonna miss something and they're gonna pay the price for it." She said, bringing her cigar back to her lips. The voice took a moment to answer, the breeze dying away a time before it eventually came back, brushing through Momi's hair, the thick curls of dark barely being moved by the attempt.

"You day you care for largely just the Americans, but a tone like that suggests you feel for other flags." The voice said. Momi scowled as she took a puff of her cigar a moment before bringing it back down.

"They've all deserved someone watching over them. And sometimes, I really fuckin doubt that's you in the end." She said. "Yeah, it's great you decided to let em help their homes, but what's your method? At first, it was one at a time. Sure. But sixty of them in a single fucking day? Where's the control? Where's the caution? Because you're throwing it all out the window at this rate." Momi Chastised.