Long Live Ironblood: Benchwarming

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The war sirens sound as the Ironblood ships begin to mobilize. Fortunately for Tirpitz, she had escaped the bombing attempt with only a few scratches and quickly mobilized along with her sister, bringing out their battleship riggings and standing at the docks along with some of the other shipgirls.

"I'll dive and provide support." U-556 says. "I'll meet you guys in the battlefield!"

"Don't get yourself destroyed now." Bismarck replies as the submarine dives into the water. Eugen, Z23 and Köln emerge, riggings at the ready, and finally the commander emerges with Scharnhorst and Gneisenau in tow.

"It's going to be a dark day for those island monkeys." The commander says as he spots his flagship moving out. He quickly moves and as soon as he reaches the edge of the docks he leaps, safely landing on his flagship as the girls head out into the water, following close behind.

"What do you think we can expect?" Tirpitz asks. "I'm probably expecting the whole fleet."

"Maybe not the whole fleet. They're too cowardly to put out all of their prized ones at once." The commander replies as he spots some of the Royal Navy ships. The ships then proceed to fire their cannons, but the shots barely do anything to the flagship or it's absurdly tough armor, and the twins retaliate with powerful armor piercing shells that blast clean holes through the hulls.

"These ships are too flimsy." Scharnhorst taunts as she fires off another volley of AP shells, detonating a Royal Navy ship's magazine and blowing it apart.

"Nice shot." Bismarck chuckles. "Almost reminds me of how I managed to blow the "mighty" Hood clean in half."

"That's probably one of the best achievements any Ironblood ship has ever made." The commander says. "Oh wait, I think I see our opposition." He quickly adds as he spots someone just off in the distance. She has short, almost black hair with a gold thread, and she aims at the Ironblood ships with a strange, steampunk style rifle.

"Swordfishes at the ready!" She shouts as she fires off bullets that transform into torpedo bombers. The girls quickly navigate out of the way of the torpedoes that the bombers drop and they barely miss the commander's flagship, leaving just a few inches of breathing room.

"Wait! That carrier! It's Ark Royal!" Bismarck shouts. "She was the one that crippled me!"

"Is that Bismarck?! Alive?!" Ark Royal shouts back. "Maybe I should have aimed for more than just your rudder then!" She yells some more as she fires again, this time aiming for Bismarck.

"Not this time!" Tirpitz yells as she creates a cloud of anti air fire and destroys the torpedo bombers while Scharnhorst and Gneisenau engage the royal carrier.

"Eat our shells!" The twin battlecruisers shout as they fire off a salvo of AP shots, and Ark Royal is too busy dodging them, allowing Eugen and Z23 to move in for a killing blow.

"You're open!" Eugen shouts. "Now Nimi! Let loose with your torpedoes!"

"Right!" Nimi shouts back as she fires off a series of homing torpedoes at point blank range and she manages to cripple Ark Royal as they all explode upon hitting her.

"GAH!" Ark Royal shouts as she goes down on one knee. "Don't think I'm done yet!"

"What's she planning?!" Bismarck asks, but she gets her answer as Ark Royal fires off one last bullet before retreating, and the swordfish that it turns into is headed straight for the flagship! Unfortunately the Ironblood girls are too late as the commander's flagship is hit and it slowly starts sinking.

"Oh SHOOT!" The commander yells as he jumps, and he lands in Bismarck's arms as everyone watches his flagship sink to the bottom.

"Well, that's the end of that." Scharnhorst says.

"And it was her maiden voyage too!" The commander says. "Well, let's head back everyone, can't really make any further progress without the flagship."