Justifiable Stalemate

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"Look, I'm not in any mood to talk!" Commander Tran grumbles. "You got our attention, now what was the whole idea of bringing us out here?"

"Can you even fight in that state? Let alone command? You look awful!" Bismarck says.

"Who are you calling awful?!" Commander Tran suddenly shouts as his flagship fires off a bunker buster shell, but it misses the Ironblood leader by a mile.

"I didn't mean it like that!" Bismarck says.

"Even though she's our enemy, I think I can agree with that." Enterprise adds.

"Can he even do anything in that state? What in the name of the Sakura Empire has he been doing?" Mikasa asks the Eagle Union girls, genuinely worried about the commander's condition.

"Not even we know because he barely ever talks with us." Arizona says, watching Commander Tran drunkenly glare at Bismarck, who is also genuinely concerned about his health.

"You might be on a high pillar right now with all of your new tech stuff but just you wait!" Commander Tran shouts. "You're... You're gonna regret it!"

"What is he even talking about?" Kaga mumbles.

"Under normal circumstances we would take advantage and destroy you, but I'm actually worried that he might fire upon you girls instead..." Mikasa says. "He really does look that irritable."

"On a second note, you haven't been eating ration bars again have you?" Yorktown asks Enterprise as the Crimson Axis begins to recall it's lesser ships, sending them back to port in light of this odd situation.

"Hey! Where do you think you're all going?! Fire all cannons!" Commander Tran shouts as his flagship fires a whole salvo, but once again thanks to the commander's poor judgement his entire salvo is way off.

"No, I stopped eating them a long time ago, remember?" Enterprise says to Yorktown as Bismarck slowly and carefully makes her way to where the others have grouped up, trying her best to keep an eye on Commander Tran so he doesn't do anything stupid.

"Oh, I was wondering because your ration bars have been disappearing." Yorktown replies.

"They have?" Enterprise asks. "That's odd... We all know I stopped eating them, and nobody else eats them..." That's when Hornet slowly looks at the commander, who's still glaring at the Crimson Axis ships and holding onto the guard rail like he's about to throw up.

"I think I found our culprit." Hornet says. "I wouldn't be surprised if he's the one eating your ration bars."

"Why do you even have ration bars to begin with?" Bismarck asks.

"I used to eat them every day before the others stopped me." Enterprise replies.

"I could never..." Bismarck says, cringing. "Well... How about this? We'll call a ceasefire for now and you girls see if you can get your commander in a better condition than he is right now. Sound good?"

"As long as you don't attack us while we're trying." Yorktown replies.

"We promise that." Mikasa says. "We'll have some ships on patrol and we'll be ready to battle when you are. I doubt your commander will think otherwise and he'll probably try to command you to attack them anyway, but still."

"He's going to be too busy to even notice. I just know it." Saratoga and Arizona mumble.

"Come on commander, we're heading back to port." Lexington says to Commander Tran.

"Wha- oh, alright." Commander Tran replies as he turns his flagship around and heads back for the docks.

"I hope you can get through to him." Kaga says.

"I'm just surprised that you're even worried about him." Hornet replies.

"Well, we are honorbound. We can't possibly fight you guys if your leader is looking like a hot mess, it just wouldn't seem fair." Bismarck says. "Well I wish you girls luck in trying to get through to your commander."

"We'll definitely try." Yorktown says as both sides head back to their docks.

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