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3rd PoV

"Alright, let's move!" Y/N yelled and hopped towards the waters beneath them, summoning his rigging in the process.

"Understood!" They all responded in unison.

As they glided across the sea, Y/N couldn't help but to ask, "How are you not in a hungover, Hornet?"

Hornet merelt grinned, glancing. "What do you mean I'm not in a hungover?"

"You were fully drunk when the barfight ended!" Y/N replied, Hornet laughs because of his answer.

"Commander, I did just drank three bottles of it. And Oxy-Cola!"

"Ah." That was just the word came out of his mouth in realization. "So that's why..."

"Hehe..." Hornet beamed.

"Commander, do you know have the location of the distress call?" Belfast asks, changing the subject.

"Yeah. " Y/N winced, still receiving the same call in a loop. "They're outside the vicinity of Wake, but I still need more time to locate where exactly they are."

"Commander." Enterprise looked at him. "Permission to scout ahead?"

Y/N nodded. "Permission granted." He then turns to Hamann and Cleveland. "Cleveland, go with Enteprise. Hamann, stay with me." He also glances at Belfast and Hornet behind his back. "That goes for you two."

"H-Hah?! W-What are you trying to do with Hamann alone? D-Don't be ridiculous!" Hamann acted like a tsun. But Y/N is not playing with everyone and instead he looked back at her with a glare.

"The more we spend time talking crap, their situation becomes more dire especially that storm is brewing ahead. Do you understand my words, Hamann?!" He said with a cold tone, stopping her from talking nonsense.

"Y-Yes!" She nervously replied, and scouted ahead of the group.

"That was harsh, Commander." Cleveland commented, seeing that Hamann became scared so easily after that.

"She's acting like an idiot in this situation, so I forced myself to be in control." Y/N said with a pissed look. "Hold on, the signal's getting clearer and clearer."

"I think we're close." Hornet remarked.

"Tsk." Enterprise grinds her teeth, her planes coming back to her. "My planes can't go further, Commander. The storm ahead is bad enough to ground them."

"Then let's go with further haste. Full speed ahead!" Y/N ordered.

"Aye, aye!" They replied.

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The waves goes up and down as they were forced to take a cautious approach. The group splintered into two. Enterprise with Belfast and Hornet, while Y/N is with Hamann and Cleveland.

"Do you see something ahead, Hamann?" Y/N asks, shielding his face with his arm against the rain.

"N-not ye- WAIT, I SEE SOMETHING! NORTHWEST OF US!" Hamann yelled.

Y/N pulls out his binoculars as he raised his hand, ordering the group in a halt. "I dunno." He said. "It looks like... an island or something."

"But, that's wrong!" Hornet exclaimed. "Wake's farther west not north north!"

"I doubt that." Enterprise agreed.

"Should we go?" Belfast asked him.

"We don't have any other choice. The storm's tampering with my radio and my radar." Y/N muttered. "Everyone, don't let your guard down and be careful. Hamann, take us ahead!"

"Y-Yes!"

The group sailed to where Hamann spotted the silhouette.

"That's-!" Hamann gasps.

"A ship..." Y/N narrowed his eyes at the battered Light Cruisers, getting swayed by the large waves in the middle of the ocean. "Two of them!"

"I can see ships around, too!" Cleveland point out.

"Sirens?" Hornet wondered.

"No, look closely." Enteprise stops her before Hornet could do anything.

"They're already been sunk?" Hornet realized. "Then who's ships are those who fought them?"

Y/N looked around, observing the area. "Our only answer is just ahead. C'mon, let's climb aboard that ship."

The group jumped through the bow of the Light Cruiser as their riggings disappeared.

"Inspect the perimeter, make sure that those Siren ships around us are already dead in the water." Y/N ordered as they scattered across the bow. "Enterprise, with me." He gestures her to follow as Y/N walked further through the deck.

The two walked side by side as Y/N observes the front guns the ship have. "5.5 inch guns..." He muttered, caressing the turret before he heard a whimper from somewhere. "Hey, you hear that?"

The two stopped their movements as Enterprise focused. "It's coming from over there." She points below the stairs and behind the boiler room.

"Don't do anything reckless." He whispered, unholstering his revolver. "I'll handle this."

As both descended through the stairs, the whimpers became clearer, thus leading them to one of the boilet rooms.

"Ning Hai... Big sis..." He heard a voice of a small girl comforting someone, sniffling.

"Ning Hai, where do I hear that name before..." Y/N repeated in a whisper, trying to remember what ship that is. "The RoC famous sister ships?" He muttered to himself, his eyes widening and holstered his weapon back.

"Commander, why did you hide your weapon?" Enterprise whispered.

"That's because..."

As Y/N turns to the left, opening the door, he finally sees the Dragon Empery's sister ships, a weakened Ping Hai and a wounded Ning Hai hiding.

"-they're our allies."

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"Their outfits..." Enterprise noticed.

"They are from the Dragon Empery. But why are they here near Wake?" Y/N wondered.

Ping Hai shivered in reflex as she nervously raised her weapon, pointing at Y/N and Enterprise. Ning Hai tried to open one eye to see what's happening.

"W-WHO ARE YOU?! D-Don't come any closer!" Ping Hai whimpered.

"Peace." Y/N calms her down, but not in the way of approaching the two.

Enterprise spoke, "We're from Azur Lane, and we're here because we received your distress call an hour ago."

"You girls are going to be fine now." He calmly said as Ning Hai starts to sob in relief. Seeing that Ping Hai had lowered her weapon, he starts to observe their surroundings. "Did you two defeated the Sirens here?"

Ping Hai nodded. Y/N squats down to her level and smiled in comfort.

"Can you tell me what happened here?"

"We were being chased by the Sirens. We beat them all, but my sister protected me..."

Suddenly, Ning Hai moved a bit and coughed blood. "B-Big sis!"

"Ning Hai... Are you a-alright?" She weakly asks.

"Stop." Y/N said as he pulls out a bandage from his back pocket. "Here-" He stuffed the bandage to Ning Hai's wound. "-that should stop the bleeding for a while."

Ping Hai looked at him in confusion before nodding. "W-Who-?"

"He's our new Commander. Commander Y/N James Kōri." Enterprise introduced him.

"Do not worry. We're here to save you and bring you back to Azur Lane, with your permissions of course." Y/N said.

"Azur Lane has a new Commander?" Ping Hai asked, Enteprise nodded in answer.

"That is me." Y/N stands up and smirked. "Enterprise, please contact Cleveland and- SHIT GET DOWN!"

*Boom!*

Y/N immediately grabbed Enterprise as they both ducked down seconds before a salvo could hit them. Luckily it flew past over Ping Hai's ship, barely missing it.

"Where are the rest?" Y/N growled as the siren ships around them starts to glow red, their turrets moving towards Ping Hai's ship.

"Commander, requesting permission to engage?" Enterprise asks.

"Permission granted." Y/N said. "Go after the big one, I'll see what I can do to the other ships around us." He then looked down at the two wounded ships. "Can you two stay here?"

"What are you doing? Y-You're just a human." Ping Hai confusedly stated.

"Oh, I am a human, alright." Y/N winked. "Just watch."

He pulled his revolver out and jumped towards Ping Hai's mast. This caused the two Dragon Empery ships to gasp.

"He's... like us?" Ping Hai's eyes widened.

Enterprise let out a small smile from her comment.

Reaching the top, Y/N counted the sirens ships thst were marooned around them.

"Seven ships... Four destroyers, three cruisers." He muttered. Y/N closes his eyes as he activated his rigging behind his back.

"Prepare the Tomahawks!"

The BGM-109 Tomahawks smoothly turned their arrows ahead and up in the stormy sky.

"Locked on!" His eyes shifted into red as he raised his revolver, pulling the trigger. "Launch!"

The Tomahawks bursted like fireballs up in the sky in seven different directions as he waited for them to make the impact.

"200..."

He waited.

"130..."

The sirent turrets locked onto Ping Hai's ship.

"50..."

The missiles went closer.

"Hit!"

With a series of explosions, seven ships went in flames and were damaged, instantly sinking them.

He observes Enterprise, gliding on the water as it attracted the attention of the Siren Battleship. She tried to release her planes, her actions made Y/N's eyes widened in horror.

"Fuck, she lied again about her rigging!" Y/N yelled as he hastily hopped down from Ping Hai's mast and his Phalanx CIWS appeared on his arm, firing a streak of bullets as the Siren Battleship fires its salvo.

*BRRRRTTTTT!*

It successfully destroyed the shells before it could hit Enterprise. He was about to attack the battleship when it suddenly exploded into a series of explosions, damaging it.

Belfast, Cleveland and Hammann landed in front of Enterprise while Hornet sailed right next to her.

"Enterprise!" Hornet said, her worried face tells everything. "You nearly got hit!"

Y/N also joined their group as Belfast fired a broadside at the enemy ship, scoring another hit.

Hammann launches her torpedoes and Cleveland landed the final hit, sinking the ship.

"You're slow." Belfast remarked with a disapproving glance at her. "Soft-hearted and a risk-magnet."

Y/N turns around crosses his arms, angry at her. "You lied, again." He spat. "Lucky for you I stopped those shells before it could reach you."

Silence falls before the group as Enterprise tried to speak, "But, Comma-"

"Save your excuses at my office, Enterprise." He then sailed away with a disappointing face but not before he could say one final order. "Belfast, you're in charge temporarily. Hammann, Cleveland, tow Ping Hai's ship back to Azur Lane. Hornet, keep an eye of her will you? I'll do some lone scouting ahead on my own."

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He glared at them, especially to Enterprise before he could leave.

"That is an order."

And with a defeaning silence between them, the storm stops in time as Y/N breaks away from the group.

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