Operation Bermuda (Modern Ship X Azur Lane)

Act 2: Anomaly?

Location: 200 kilometers off the coast of Midway

Date: 23rd October 1945

"Hurry up! We can't miss the party at the mess hall!" Hammann yelled, looking back toward the rest of her task force, waiting for them and the cargo ship to catch up.

"Hey hey, slow down. We're not as fast as destroyers, ya know!" Hornet replied with a smile, before turning toward the massive cargo ship heading toward the Azur Lane base. "Besides, I don't think these clunkers could go any faster, even if they wanted to." She continued,

"Hmmph!" Hammann pouted, she was annoyed. 14 knots top speed? That't outrageous! Even if it wasn't designed for speed, it was still too slow for her likings.

"Ghost is tired, want sleep~" Long Island yawned, as she can be seen recovering her patrol aircraft, even if Azur Lane and  Red Axis had formed a coalition, she still did it... Just in case, even if its just 2 aircraft covering the whole fleet, she just can't be bothered to launch more.

Helena, in the meantime kept to herself. Even in peace times like this, she couldn't help but feel a bit uneasy, as if a massive storm was brewing. Becoming a ticking time bomb, waiting for the right moment to rain down disaster after disaster.

Northampton simply glances at Helena, she was still following the others at a steady slow pace of 12 knots, but she couldn't help but wonder. What's Helena is thinking?

"Everyone! I detected something on my radar, right up ahead!" She barked, alerting everyone immediately, much to Hammann's delight.

"Finally something exciting! Destroyer Hammann is going to show them why you do-" Before she could say anything, she heard the sound of Whistling for a brief moment, followed by a large explosion as a water column rises into the sky, showering the shipgirls with waters. "You stupid! I wasn't finioshed talking to you!"

"Everyone! Contact has been identified as hostile, contact the base of our coordinate! Finally! Here I come!" she said, as she began preparing her aircraft. They only made it several hundred meters, before an unknown object seemingly collided with them, causing them to burst into flames as their torn up wreckage fell into the ocean. "W-What?! What just happened?!" 

Helena, strangely enough didn't seem to detect those objects. They were moving too fast? and were so small that her radars couldn't pick them up? What's happening?  Her train of thought was interrupted, when she spotted something in the distance... There's no mistaking it, it was a siren ship! It had a strange silhouette, coupled with red stripes across its hull and superstructure, but oddly enough... It seems to be a cruiser, but with 2 single mounts?

"Enemy spotted, I'm moving to engage, cover my back." Northampton said, as rushed to close in the distance. She analyzes the ship, it was a cruiser sized ship, but only seems to have 2 single mount 6" guns as its armament, aswell as what seems to be a twin AA mount on each side... This threat seems simple, but she wasn't underestimating it. She fired a salvo of her 8" guns,

BOOOM!

The sound echoed through the sky, as 8" shells began to make her way towars the ship. However, it seems to immediately manuever away to avoid the tightly packed salvo, causing them to land harmlessly right next to the ship. Creating a towering column of water,

Nora immediatelyt reloaded her gun, and was about to fire, when a plume of smoke erupted from a mysterious tube before turning straight toward her. Rockets! They seem to start putting them on ships?! She thought, as she tries to dodge the rocket, it should been easy, knowing siren made homing rockets seems to have difficulties tracking shipgirl. Her AA gun fired at the gun, when in split second, she saw it happened... It immediately corrected its trajectory to her action, heading straight toward her, when she heard the sound of roaring propeller.